Description

SE 43 SE LEDSHAM NEW ROAD
LS25 (west side, off)

4/25 The Old Vicarage
with stables at west end
of rear courtyard

GV II

Vicarage, now house. Early C19. Sandstone ashlar and magnesian limestone
rubble, slate roof. Rectangular front range with long service wing to rear
of right-hand half making L-plan. Two storeys and 5 bays in classical style,
symmetrical; ashlar in diminishing courses; pedimented tetrastyle Doric porch
protecting glazed and panelled double doors with overlight and side windows;
12-pane sashed windows with splayed voussoirs and those at ground floor with
aprons; low-pitched hipped roof with projecting eaves, a chimney stack behind
each end of the ridge. The left return wall of 3 bays has recessed
round-headed arches at ground floor, French windows in that to the left and
the others blind, a 12-pane sash and 2 blind windows above. Continuing
from the rear corner is a screen wall to the rear courtyard, approx. 3 metres
high, the first half of ashlar with 2 blind windows or panels, and the
remainder of coursed squared masonry with a doorway to the yard. The
right-hand return wall has one 12-pane sashed window on each floor near the
rear corner; and continued from this is the service wing of 2 lower storeys,
which has similar windows, some coupled, and further continued is a
coach-house (now garage), part raised to 2 higher storeys, and the gable end
containing an elliptical-headed coach doorway; other features of this wing
of less interest. Rear wall of house has inter alia a round-headed
stairlight.

Interior: entrance hall with round-headed central arch flanked by coved
alcoves, and through this arch an open well staircase.

At the far end of the rear courtyard, and attached to the screen wall, is a
single-storey stable block of rubble with hipped stone slate roof, 3 stable
doors and 4 windows (a,b,a,b,b,a) and mounting steps attached to the front
wall.

Listing NGR: SE4538930085

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26530651

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)