Vicarage With Carriage House, Stable And Outbuildings In Attached Walled Yard

SE 36 NE KIRBY HILL CHURCH LANE (south side, off)

3/25 Vicarage with carriage house, stable and outbuildings in attached walled yard.

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Vicarage, carriage house, stables and courtyard wall. 1839 for the Rev T Allanson. Red brick, Flemish bond, grey slate roofs. House: 2 storeys, 3 bays with courtyard on right (west). House: Central 4-panel door with large overlight, door-case composed of attached columns supporting plain entablature and deep cornice. Flanking 15-pane sashes with stone sills, sashes with glazing bars and continuous sill band to first floor, gauged brick arches throughout. Moulded eaves cornice. Hipped roof with paired ridge stacks to centre. Interior: brick-lined cellars; 4-panel doors. Main rooms front left and rear: original shutters, moulded ceiling cornices incorporating Greek key and rose motifs. Large central-entrance hall with original wide staircase of 2 straight flights with turned balusters. Moulded ceiling cornice to landing, original doors. Walled yard with stables, carriage house and outbuildings attached to west side of house; the front wall of the service wing survives as the east end of the north wall of the yard. The north wall is approximately 2.5 metres high, with ashlar coping, ramped down to brick gate piers with flat ashlar caps. A small lean-to stable or outbuilding in the courtyard against the west end of the north wall has board door and 4-pane side-sliding sash window. Courtyard, west side: carriage house of 2 storeys and 2 bays, single-storey bay to left. Carriage house: 2 C20 garage doors, that to left, under segmental arch in headers and stretchers, is original. 2 small square loading doors above in segmental-headed openings. Single-storey bay attached to left: board door, chimney left end. Courtyard, south side: gate to garden to right of centre; left: single-storey range of 3 outbuildings with board doors and small-paned windows attached to house. The building of the present vicarage followed a period in the late C18 - early C19 when the vicar of Kirby Hill was unable to live in the village because of the bad condition of the old vicarage. H Stapleton, The Church of All Saints, Kirby on the Moor, 1923, p 51.

Listing NGR: SE3917868422