Calf Heys |
Architectural Heritage Dossier
Location: | Meadows Avenue, Thornton-Cleveleys, (rear of Christ Church) |
Type of Building: | Domestic |
Year Built: | 1835 |
Listing Status: | Grade II |
Picture by Mike Pollard 2004
Description (mostly from Images of England)
House, originally c18, altered and extended as parsonage 1835, now private house.
Rendered brick, slate roof.
L shaped plan with receding right wing (the original house).
Regency style, 2 storeys, façade of 5 unequal bays; door offset to right, now with modern glazed porch (original porch shown below).
All windows sashed, with glazing bars and crown – glass panes: on ground floor one window each side of door and on first floor those directly above all have 10 panes in each sash, the marginal panes of half width; the first floor window over the door, and the 2 windows on each floor at the left end (1835 extension) all have 6 panes in each sash.
Distinctive deep overhanging eaves with soffits; hipped roofs of low pitch with spike finial.
Calf Heys was originally the vicarage for Christ Church until a new one was built next door, it later became a home for the elderly and then back to a residential dwelling. Situated on Meadows Avenue, previously known as Meadow Lane, Parrs Lane, and Parish Road, this was the heart of rural Thornton village.
Meadows comes from the name of the longest serving vicar at Christ Church called Rev. Thomas Meadows.
Picture Postcard
Pictured outside Calf Heys with the ladies of the church in 1855 is one of the earlier vicars, C.N. Sargeant.
The appearance of this Georgian villa remains virtually unchanged, this early picture shows the original porch detail which has since been changed.