Description

HENSALL CHURCH LANE
SE 52 SE
(west side, off)

3/4 The Red House
(formerly listed as The
11.12.67 Vicarage)

GV II*
Vicarage,now house. 1854 with later alterations. Architect, William
Butterfield; patron, 7th Viscount Downe; builder, Charles Ward of Lincoln.
Pinkish-red brick in English bond with grey tile roof. 2 storeys, 3 first-
floor windows with single-storey range to rear. Aesthetic Functionalism.
Off-centre entrance double plank doors with pointed overlight under pointed
arch. To right, small 4-pane sash, large tripartite window with 4-pane sash
a later insertion, and similar smaller window. All ground-floor openings
below header arches and pointed relieving arches. To left of first floor a
pointed tripartite window, the centre a 6-pane sash, under pointed arch set
in high gable. To right 2-light timber mullion window with 2-pane sashes
and a tripartite window, the centre a 12-pane sash, in half-hipped roof
dormer. Ridge, rear and side stacks have cogged bands. Interior retains
several original features. Library has bookshelves and fireplace. Dining
room has oak fireplace, roll-moulded beams and panelled walls. Dogleg
staircase with chamfered plank balusters. Shutters to some windows.
6-panel doors. An early example of a
conscious Victorian return to an honest, unpretentious style of house
building which is not stylistic and is devoid of imitative flavour.
Conceived of as a group with St Paul's Church (qv) and Hensall Primary
School and with similar groups at Cowick and Pollington. N Pevsner,
Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, pp 262-631. P Thompson, William
Butterfield, 1971, pp 221, 308, 405 and 438.

Listing NGR: SE5824622561

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542215

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