Description

HAMPTON LUCY

SP25NE CHURCH STREET
1457-1/10/66 (South side)
06/02/52 Hampton Lucy House
(Formerly Listed as:
HAMPTON LUCY
The Rectory)

GV II*

Rectory, now house. Earlier C18 with early C19 additions.
Brick laid to Flemish bond with ashlar dressings; hipped old
tile roof with brick internal stacks. Early Georgian style.
Central staircase plan with service range to right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; symmetrical 5-window range.
Ashlar plinth, top cornice and balustraded parapet with
fielded-panelled piers and central segmental-headed panel with
Lucy Arms; rusticated quoins.
Entrance has architrave with flanking panelled pilaster strips
and pulvinated frieze to consoled segmental pediment, moulded
door frame with angle paterae and overlight with decorative
glazing bars to 4-panel door. Windows have sills, and rubbed
brick flat arches with key blocks over 6/6 sashes; 3 hipped
dormers with 2-light small-paned casements.
Left return 4-window range has attached conservatory with
18-pane sashes; 2 dormers. Rear has brick parapet;
single-storey stuccoed projection to right of 2 windows has
ramped cornice and parapet over 2 windows with triple key
blocks and 2/4 horned sashes.
Right return has blocked windows and rainwater heads; attached
2-storey, 3-window, double-depth brick range has slate roof
and brick cross-axial stacks; quoins and top cornice; entrance
with overlight to 4-panel door and window to right; windows
similar to main range.
Right return has segmental-headed entrance and 2 ground floor
windows with cross-casements, with 2 first-floor windows
flanking inserted window.
Rear probably older, with blocked entrance to left with
12-pane sash above; right end has segmental-headed window with
tripartite sash and 2 windows above with timber lintels over
12-pane sashes.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has dado and deep entablature;
architraves to 6-fielded-panel doors; red marble fireplace.
Open-well stair has cut string, wreathed handrail, fluted
newel and 2 column-on-vase balusters to each tread.
Room to left of stair has fielded-panelling to dado, marble
fireplace and bookcases flanking Greek Doric doorway with
attached columns and triglyph pediment, the bookcases with
entablatures and round-headed panel to cupboard door to each
end.
Room to rear addition has rich decoration with luce and
cross-crosslet from Lucy Arms; rich cornice and ceiling panels
with central roundel; plain fireplace probably later.
Home of the Rev John Lucy, patron of the Church of St Peter
(qv).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 306).

Listing NGR: SP2561356946

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551863

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey