Description

SE4245-4345 BOSTON SPA HIGH STREET LS23 (south side)

6/42 No 86 (The Vicarage) and attached front garden wall.

GV II

Vicarage and attached garden wall. c1830; extended late C19. Ashlar- magnesian limestone, graduated slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with attached screen walls, that on left later incorporated into a 2-storey, 1-bay wing; attached wall enclosing rectangular front garden. Main house has rectangular stone steps to central panelled door with 3-pane overlight, flat arch and peaked canopy on shaped wooden brackets. Flanking bays have unequally-hung 4-pane sashes in reveals with projecting stone sills and flat arches. lst floor: central sash with glazing bars flanked by 16-pane sashes in openings as ground floor. Paired wooden gutter brackets; cement-rendered end stack on left, stone end stack on right. Screen wall on right has blind window with carved shield of Christchurch College, Oxford (patron); to its right a doorway with boarded door. Wing on left has 4-pane sash (in position of screen-wall blind opening) and small sash on left; sash with glazing bars to 1st floor; hipped left end to lower roof. Front garden wall: sweeps down from screen walls to return and line pavement to High Street; domed copings sweep up to square gate piers opposite front door. Rear of main house: 6- panel door to left of centre under flat arch; 4-pane sash on left, otherwise 16-pane sashes with flat arches; round-headed sash with glazing bars above door. Interior:contemporary wooden staircase with square baluster rods and ramped handrail.

Listing NGR: SE4257945814

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)