NHER 30676 (Building record) - Abbotsford, No 12 Vicar Street

Abbotsford.

July 1972. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"House, partly converted to flats. C.1830. Gault brick with slate roofs. South-east front faces road. Two-storey main block in three bays. Gabled projecting porch with doorcase comprising reeded Tuscan columns below a metope hood. Fenestration of sashes with glazing bars, those to ground floor set within recessed Soanian-like arches. Upper windows with gauged skewback arches. Paired panel eaves cornice below shallow hipped roof. Garden front similar. To north-east a similar three-bay addition links original block to a gabled pavilion rising through through storeys.
Interior. Various pieces of floral plasterwork adorn the principal rooms. Short staircase approaches right-hand ground-floor room which is arranged in imitation of a medieval hall with a further staircase at the 'solar' end."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 July 2021.

One presumes the house was inspired by Sir Walter Scott's mansion at Abbotsford in the same style.
The stable block is also listed; 1830 flint, brick and pantiles. Central gabled bay flanked by loose boses and carriage house below hayloft.
Stables now recorded under NHER 45886.
E. Rose (NLA), 17 June 1994.

For history of gardens see (S2).

The east wall of the stable contains a number of reused sections of medieval limestone blocks, no doubt from the abbey. These were formerly wrongly included under NHER 15866.
E. Rose (NLA), 12 August 2005.

October 2012.
Proposed renovations to the interior and exterior of the house and external buildings as well as alterations to the entranceway. The proposed works would result in the removal of some later additions and restoration of much of the original character of the building.
See (S3) for further details.
H. Hamilton (HES), 22 October 2012.