The Old Vicarage and Kenmore
The Old Vicarage and Kenmore
HER Number
8354
District
Gateshead
Site Name
The Old Vicarage and Kenmore
Place
Lamesley
Map Sheet
NZ25NW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Clergy House
Site Type: Specific
Vicarage
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Vicarage, now two separate dwellings. Circa 1820. Tooled coursed squared
sandstone with ashlar quoins, plinth and dressings; steeply pitched roof
of Welsh slate with chamfered stone gable copings on curved kneelers
Jacobean style. Two storeys, 3 x 4 windows. East (garden) front of three
windows, projecting gable at left over canted bay windows of 1, 3 and 1
lights, drip string to ground floor. Bracketed cast iron gutter,parapet
band. Central half-glazed, door in projecting chamfered Tudor-arched
surround under cornice and blocking course; 3-light window in third bay;
2-light windows above under gabled dormers. All windows are stone-mullioned
sashes with glazing bars in chamfered stone surrounds under label moulds.
Octagonal stone shafts support ball finials at gables. Similar features
on right return and inserted door. Roof has conjoined octagonal ashlar
chimneys at right end and between bays one and two of main front; one at
rear left return, 2 on right return. Interior of the Old Vicarage has
Gothick pilasters flanking main room window; 3 over 3 vertical panels to
doors in deep panelled reveals. LISTED GRADE 2
sandstone with ashlar quoins, plinth and dressings; steeply pitched roof
of Welsh slate with chamfered stone gable copings on curved kneelers
Jacobean style. Two storeys, 3 x 4 windows. East (garden) front of three
windows, projecting gable at left over canted bay windows of 1, 3 and 1
lights, drip string to ground floor. Bracketed cast iron gutter,parapet
band. Central half-glazed, door in projecting chamfered Tudor-arched
surround under cornice and blocking course; 3-light window in third bay;
2-light windows above under gabled dormers. All windows are stone-mullioned
sashes with glazing bars in chamfered stone surrounds under label moulds.
Octagonal stone shafts support ball finials at gables. Similar features
on right return and inserted door. Roof has conjoined octagonal ashlar
chimneys at right end and between bays one and two of main front; one at
rear left return, 2 on right return. Interior of the Old Vicarage has
Gothick pilasters flanking main room window; 3 over 3 vertical panels to
doors in deep panelled reveals. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425010
Northing
557830
Grid Reference
NZ425010557830
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 11/69 and 12/69; Gateshead Council, April 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Proposed Lamesley Conservation Area, pp 82-85 (Supplementary Planning Guidance), pp 88-90; Gateshead Council, July 2003, Lamesley Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategy and Character Statement (Appendix to Supplementary Planning Guidance 1), pp 29-34