Description

YORK

SE5953SW CLIFTON
1112-1/5/202 (East side (off))
24/06/83 Vicarage and Vicarage Lodge to
Church of St Philip and St James

GV II

Vicarage and attached house. 1879-80. Designed by JL Pearson
1877-8 for the Rev. GH Straffen.
MATERIALS:: orange brick in English bond on ground floor;
first floor hung with plain and fishscale tiles. Plain tile
roofs, half hipped and gabled with banks of tall ornately
moulded brick stacks with brick corbel cornices; bargeboards
to gables and gablets; gablets have tiny pointed openings with
glass louvres. Cast-iron weather vane dated 1879 to porch
gable; terracotta finial on conical roof to semicircular bow
window.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 3-bay main range with 2-storey,
one-and-a-half bay projecting wing to left: main range has
2-storey projecting porch with first floor deeply coved and
jettied on shaped joists and brackets. Porch has nail studded
board double doors on ground floor; on first floor 6-light
window with 8-pane casements and timber mullions. Bay to left
of porch has coved jetty and small-pane mullioned and
transomed windows to left of smaller 2-light windows with
pivoting top lights on both floors. On ground floor to right
of porch is one window of two 8-pane lights. Moulded
sillstring is stepped and broken by longer windows. Cogged
brick course beneath first floor of right bay and deep coved
eaves return over left part of garden front. Crosswing has
nail studded door beneath flat porch in half bay. Left bay
projects and has 5-light window with casements and top lights
on both floors; first floor window projects as shallow square
bay on shaped brackets. Brick corbel course beneath first
floor returns on left side.
Garden front: 2 storeys, 3 bays: to left is 2-storey shallow
square bay; to right, full height semicircular bay with
conical roof and finial. In centre bay, only 3-light first
floor window is visible. Windows in square bay are of 5
lights: in semicircular bay, windows are banded beneath
moulded timber cornices on both floors. All are mullioned and
transomed with 1-pane casements and small-pane transom lights.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE5931353151

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26550370

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