Description

SK 23 81 PARISH OF HATHERSAGE BANK TOP
6/14
The Vicarage and garden
walling
GV II

Vicarage. Early C19 with mid C19 additions. Coursed squared rubble gritstone
with plain gables, quoins, intermediate and end stone ridge stacks, stone slates and
concrete tiles. Irregular 'U' plan. South east elevation; two storeys, four bays,
that to the south west end an addition. Glazing bar sashes set in flush stone
surrounds, the ground floor windows to the north east of the doorway having lost
its glazing bars. Two storey canted bay windows to added end bay. Off-centre
doorway with quoined surround, heavy stone lintel and a C20 glazed door. Tall garden
wall of coursed gritstone with shallow saddleback copings encloses garden to south.
The novelist, Charlotte Bronte resided here in 1845, and Hathersage became the model
for the settlement Morten in her novel 'Jane Eyre'.

Listing NGR: SK2335481847

This listing was enhanced in 2016 to mark the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte’s birth.

History

In the summer of 1845, Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) stayed at the vicarage in Hathersage, visiting her old school friend Ellen Nussey. Whilst there she met the Eyre family and saw their ancestral home, North Lees Hall, where a mad woman had once been kept in an upper room, this providing inspiration for Charlotte Bronte’s first and most famous novel, Jane Eyre (1847). Many places in the novel have been identified with real places in the area such as North Lees Hall being Mr Rochester’s Thornfield Hall, and Hathersage being the village of Morton.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26403476

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)