Description

BAKEWELL

SK2168 YELD ROAD
831-1/4/184 (East side)
20/05/74 The Old Vicarage
(Formerly Listed as:
MONYASH ROAD
(South East side)
Hurtwood and The Vicarage)

GV II

Former vicarage now residential home. 1869. By Alfred
Waterhouse for the encumbent Edward Balston. Squared limestone
in diminishing courses with ashlar sandstone dressings; red
tile roof with yellow brick chimney shafts. Gothic Revival
style. U-shaped plan having double-depth centre and cross
wings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with cellar and attic; 1:3:1-bay entrance
front. Chamfered plinth; square-headed windows with
deeply-chamfered sills and chamfered, quoined surrounds to
plain sashes (some original coloured leaded lights survive).
Entrance front: gabled one-storey porch in angle with cross
wing on right has original boarded door with decorative
ironwork in moulded pointed arch with hoodmould; crested ridge
tiles. Stepped 3-light stair window to main wall above has
transom, pointed-arched lights and linked hoodmoulds; to left
of this are single sashes then paired sashes beneath a gabled
dormer with quatrefoil.
Right cross wing: paired sashes beneath string course; single
sash to first floor and plate-traceried roundel to the gable.
Left cross wing: single-storey projection with 3 plain sashes
and gable slit. Main gable behind with narrow sashes which
flank a central projecting stack with quoined offset plinth
but no shafts. Scrolled iron gutter brackets to swept eaves;
tall ridge stacks with ashlar offsets and stepped brick caps
with cogging.
Rear: corbelled stack with cylindrical shaft; C20
conservatory.
Right return: 3 bays, the 2 on right project and have a
rectangular bay window and canted bay window with cornices and
hipped roofs. Transomed ground-floor windows; continuous
dripmould; first-floor sill band.
INTERIOR: stair hall with grey marble fireplace (resited from
a bedroom); large open-well staircase in pitch-pine with
turned newels and balusters with diagonal struts beneath the
handrail; monogram 'EDB'; galleried landing and infilled
arcade.

Dining room: grey marble fireplace with mantle on brackets.
Attic has 2 slate cisterns which collect top water and feed
well in former kitchen (now concealed).

Listing NGR: SK2147468369

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26602805

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Recommended Books

• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide