Description

SK4292 ROTHERHAM VICARAGE LANE
(south side)
9/74 No 15
(The Factory Shop)
GV II
House now shop. Early-mid C19. Red brick in Flemish bond, Welsh slate roof.
3 storeys; 3 x 3 bays; occupies corner site. Main front: pedimented central
bay breaks forward. C20 shop windows to full width of ground floor, corner
entrance to left. Chamfered ashlar quoins to upper storeys, projection also
quoined. 1st floor: sill band with moulded soffit. Sashes with glazing bars
in architraves with moulded sills on shaped brackets. 2nd floor: shorter
unequally-hung 9-pane sashes with less ornate bracketed sills. Shaped brackets
on table beneath boxed oversailing eaves. Left end of roof hipped.
Left return: C20 shop front to ground floor. Upper floors as front but without
pedimented break. Built on site of old vicarage immediately adjacent to Church
of All Saints (q.v.). Shown as Mechanics' Institute on 1851 O.S. map. Later
formed the 'Caxton Works' premises of the Rotherham Advertiser first published
on January 2nd 1858. Included for group value.
Rotherham Annual, 1908 (illustrated without shop front).

Listing NGR: SK4288492852

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26425678

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)