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Description: St. John's Old Vicarage

Address: The Old Vicarage Cragg Vale Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire HX7 5TB

Grade: II

Group detail: Swine Market Lane, Cragg Vale

Full description:
Former vicarage, now house, dated 1901. Dressed stone, slate roof. 2 and a half storeys. Good quality Vernacular Revival. 3-bay front has matching gables with copings, kneelers and ball finials. Left hand gable set back but with 2-storey bay window flush with right hand gable with 10-light mullioned and transomed window to both floors. Right hand has similar arrangement but with arched centre light and 3-light attic window. Set between is wide segmental archway with expressed keystone and moulded impost flanked by Ionic pilasters, entablature in form of open arched balustrade to 1st floor balcony. Gabled rear wing at right angles to front 2 gables which have parallel ridges. Left hand return wall has window set in the angle with rear wing with 4-light and 2-light windows in the 2 faces. Rear has doorway with shaped lintel and elaborately moulded surround. Right hand return wall has canted ground floor bay window to the left of which is tablet inscribed: "To the Glory of God, and in loving memory of, Hinchclffe Hinchcliffe esq. J.P., of Cragg Hall in this parish, this Vicarage house is erected, by his daughter Helen Strickland, A. D. 1901 ". 3 stacks one to each ridge. Nearby was Cragg Hall (now demolished) in the style of Norman Shaw. This vicarage has similar characteristics.