Description

BAKEWELL

SK2168 BUTTS VIEW
831-1/4/49 (West side (off))
The Vicarage Cottage and yard wall

GV II

Former gardener's house, coach-house and stable to The Old
Vicarage, Yeld Road (qv); now a single dwelling. c1870,
altered C20. Coursed dressed limestone; red tile roof with
crested ridges. Gardener's house to left of an L-shaped block
of coach-house and stable now converted to form part of
dwelling with integral garage; wall with gateway to front of
cobbled stable yard.
EXTERIOR: mostly one-storey and attic.
House: boarded door to right with overlight and ashlar
surround; gable with plain central sash in chamfered, quoined
surround on deeply-chamfered projecting sill.
Left return of house has triangular bay window with hipped
roof set beneath a gabled half-dormer; window to each floor on
right with 1/1 sashes.
End stack on left has offset beneath yellow brick shaft and
decorative brickwork top.
To right of house are 2 openings now infilled by walling and
large casements; overhanging eaves on shaped brackets; gabled
roof dormer with projecting roof on brackets.
Section to right is taller: segmental archway now glazed and
with central door; casement window on right. Above the arch is
a lantern and a gabled half-dormer with loft doorway.
Brick end stack on left matches that of cottage; right end of
ridge returns to cover a louvre beneath a gablet. Front wing
has 2 round windows and C20 garage doors facing onto the yard.
Roof steps down from the ridge louvre and has small stack to
left of the garage. Rear: 4 gabled roof dormers.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDARY FEATURES: wall across the stable yard has square
gatepiers of sandstone ashlar and coursed limestone;
deeply-chamfered caps with ball finials.
Likely to be part of the original scheme for the Vicarage site
laid out by Alfred Waterhouse with extensive grounds
landscaped by Edward Milner.

Listing NGR: SK2153468372

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26425599

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