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Minor amendment 30 July 2013 removed the phrase 'now District Council Offices' from the first sentence of the description. ST VINCENT'S ROAD 5314 SK 93 NW 2/200A St Vincent's House II The following sentence shall be added to the description: "None of the buildings in the grounds is of special interest." ST VINCENT'S ROAD 1. 5314 SK 93 NW 2/200A St Vincent's House II 2. Small country house, now District Council Offices. Built c.1868 for Richard Hornsby, industrialist, who owned the local iron works, and agricultural engine works. Gothic Revival style. Rock-faced limestone, with ashlar dressings and steeply pitched Welsh slate roofs, with decorative ridge tiles. Ashlar coped gables with moulded kneelers and finials. Two external, rear wall chimneys, with tall, double columnar ashlar stacks, the remaining stacks have been capped. Moulded ashlar plinth, and flush quoins. 2 storeys plus attics. Irregular plan. North entrance front, has central projecting gabled wing, with single storey, lean to, porch to the left. The doorway has a pointed arched moulded ashlar surround, with marble shafts, and hood mould. Above is a moulded ashlar parapet pierced with quatrofoils. To the right a 2-light, chamfered window, with tracery, above a single plain sash, in a flat headed chamfered surround, with a pointed inner arch. Above again a 3-light, chamfered mullion window, with a taller central light with cusped heads. At the north-west corner a circular tower, of 3 storeys, the lower 2 storeys have 3 single light chamfered lancets, with quatrofoil tracery. The third floor has an 8-light glazed arcade, with marble shafted columns and cusped tops. Below is a moulded band decorated with quatrofoils. Above a conical slate roof. Similar west and south front. Interior:entrance hall, has encased marble pillars, and a carved stone staircase. From 1922-77 this house was the property of the Air Ministry, and from 1937 to 1943 the Headquarters of No. 5 Group, Bomber Command. The famous "Dambusters" Air Raid on the Ruhr Dams,by 617 Squadron,was controlled from here. Various extensions and additions were added by the Air Ministry, most of these were removed, and the house restored after the property became the District Council Headquarters in 1977. Listing NGR: SK9247735066

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