Description

SK 65 NW FARNSFIELD VICARAGE LANE (south side) 2/83 The Old Vicarage

II

Vicarage, now house. Mid C19. Red brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Ashlar coped gables with small finials. 2 external and 3 further scattered red brick stacks. Dogtooth eaves. Set on a plinth with chamfered ashlar band over. 2 storeys plus garret, south front with 2 gabled bays. 2 flush brick first floor bands and 2 similar bands broken by the first floor openings. Pointed arched doorway with glazed double door and pointed arched overlight. Flush chamfered arched ashlar quoin surround and further blue and red brick arched flush band over. To the left is a projecting canted ashlar 2 storey single bay, with chamfered pointed arched doorway with glazed double door and pointed arched overlight. Either side are single pointed arched sashes with chamfered arched surrounds. Over the openings extends a moulded ashlar band. Above are single similar sashes in the side walls with single larger similar sash to the front. To the right is a single pointed arched sash in chamfered arched flush ashlar quoin surround with further blue and red brick arched flush band over. Chamfers with broach or ogee stops. Each garret has a single ashlar trefoil set into a pointed arched opening with blue and red brick arched flush band over. Single central ashlar gargoyle feeding a rainwater head. To the right, set back, is a single storey extension and a 2 storey wing. East/entrance front. Doorway set into single gabled bay with pointed moulded arch supported on sections of engaged columns with decorative capitals, further supported on a section of chamfered ashlar with broach stops. Either side are single moulded pointed arched fixed lights. All are in an ashlar surround with continuous ashlar hood mould and decorative label stops over. Plank door. To the right is a single large pointed chamfered arched fixed light with flush ashlar quoin surround. Having single mullion and 2 transoms, 2 trefoil arched ashlar lights are surmounted by 2 similar lights with ashlar cinquefoil in the apex. To the left of the doorway are 2 chamfered arched sashes with ogee stops and flush ashlar quoin surrounds. There is a further flush band of blue and red brick following the line of the arch. Between the 2 windows is a single external stack. Over the doorway is a single chamfered pointed arched sash with flush ashlar quoin surround and flush blue and red brick band following the arch. In the gable apex is a single trefoil corresponding to those of the south front. North front with pointed arched doorway with small pointed arched fixed light above. Various ashes, decorative fixed light, and gabled dormer and half dormer. Interior has some panelled doors. Room with foliate moulded cornice. Tile floor to entrance hall. Staircase has an ashlar 3 bay trefoil arched arcade for balusters, to the right is an archway supported on the left side on a moulded capital.

Listing NGR: SK6430356586

External Links

• Wikidata Q26574633

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