John Hiram Haycock (1759-1830) was an architect who built many notable buildings in Shropshire and Montgomeryshire. He was the son of William Haycock (1725-1802), a carpenter and joiner of Shrewsbury. He was apprenticed to his father and became a freeman of the Shrewsbury Carpenters’ and Bricklayers’ Company in 1796. From about 1814 he worked in partnership with his son Edward Haycock, Sr., and became the Shropshire county surveyor in 1824.Colvin H. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 Yale University Press, 3rd edition London, 2008 481-2.
Architectural works
Public buildings Cross Houses. The Atcham Union Workhouse.“Colvin” 3rd edition, 482 Shrewsbury, The Guildhall and Shirehall. 1783-85. Demolished 1835, as the foundations were unstable. Shrewsbury Millington’s Hospital, Frankwell. Almshouse. Built in 1748, but altered by Haycock in 1782.“Newman and Pevsner” 544-5 Shrewsbury The County Gaol 1787-93. Designed by Haycock, but built by Thomas Telford.“Newman and Pevsner” 545 Preston upon the Weald Moors, Preston Hospital. A former Almshouse. Added wings and outer pavilion buildings in 1827. J H and E Haycock.
Schools Shrewsbury Allatt’s Charity School, Murivance. Classical facade by Haycock, 1799-1800.“Newman and Pevsner” 570-1 Shrewsbury. Former Shrewsbury School building now Shrewsbury Library. Altered by John and Edward Haycock in 1815.“Newman and Pevsner” 538 Shrewsbury. Former Shrewsbury School Headmaster’s House, School Lane.
Church
Berriew Church, Montgomeryshire. Reconstructed Church in 1803-4.R Scourfield and R Haslam "The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire" Yale University Press 2013, 80
Country houses
Oakly Park, Bromfield, Shropshire. Remodelled by Haycock (1784–90) and later by C R Cockerell.Reid P “Burke’s and Savills Guide to Country Houses, Vol II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire” London, 1980, 104-5 Oakley House Moreton Corbet Castle. Unexecuted designs 1796. Shawbury, Acton Reynald Hall. Enlarged 1800“Newman and Pevsner” 212 Oswestry Sweeney Hall 1805. Built for T N Parker. Bland, ashlar faced block, with massive pilasters.“Reid” 117, illustratedJ Newman and N Pevsner “The Buildings of England: Shropshire”, Yale 2006, 464 Forden, Montgomeryshire. Gunley Hall 1810. Porch with Ionic columns.“Scourfield and Haslam” 113-4 Lydham, The Roveries. Stuccoed villa of 1810 for John Oakley.“Newman and Pevsner” 391-2 Claverley, Chyknell. Villa style house 1814.“Newman and Pevsner” 93-4 Ruyton-XI-Towns, Pradoe. Enlarged 1817.“Newman and Pevsner” 476 Stanage Park, Radnorshire. Haycock appears to have acted as a building contractor for John Adey Repton“Scourfield and Haslam” 415 Glandyfi Castle, built 1820. Attributed to Haycock on the basis of its similarities to Stanage Park.
Gallery of work by J. H. Haycock
References
Literature Colvin H. (2008), A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 Yale University Press, 4th edition London. J Newman and N Pevsner, (2006), The Buildings of England: Shropshire, Yale.
R Scourfield and R Haslam, (2013), The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire, Yale University Press.
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