The Old Vicarage

SE 37 NE BALDERSBY WIDE HOWE LANE (north side) Baldersby St James 3/26 The Old Vicarage - 26.5.71 GV II*

Vicarage, now house. 1854. By William Butterfield for Viscount Downe of Baldersby Park. Snecked stone with ashlar dressings. Tile roof. 2 storeys, irregular fenestration. Entrance front: slightly projecting gabled wing contains pointed-arched entrance and window with Geometric tracery. Otherwise 1- and 2-light ogee and trefoil headed mullion windows with sashes, in stone surrounds. Left return has canted bay to left with 6- and 8-pane wooden sashes and timber-framing to first floor, under half-hipped gable. Main chimney has slightly protruding stack rising through gable wall to left of entrance, a second chimney in the centre of the rear roof slope. Both are stepped, with ashlar bands and truncated pyramidal flues. Interior: original cupboards, panelling, doors and banisters remain, some with painted decoration. There is an open screen of vertical wooden bars at the foot of the stairs.

Listing NGR: SE3667976988