John Hiram Haycock (1759-1830) was an architect who built many notable buildings in

Shropshire Shropshire (; abbreviated SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West M ...

and

Montgomeryshire Montgomeryshire ( ) was Historic counties of Wales, one of the thirteen counties of Wales that existed from 1536 until their abolishment in 1974. It was named after its county town, Montgomery, Powys, Montgomery, which in turn was named after ...

. He was the son of William Haycock (1725-1802), a carpenter and joiner of

Shrewsbury Shrewsbury ( , ) is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. It is sited on the River Severn, northwest of Wolverhampton, west of Telford, southeast of Wrexham and north of Hereford. At the 2021 United ...

. 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.

Architectural works

Public buildings

Cross Houses Cross Houses is a village in Shropshire, England, the largest village in the Parish of Berrington. It is located on the A458 road and is 4 miles south east of Shrewsbury. Cross Houses is also the name of a hamlet south-west of Bridgnorth. Tra ...

. The Atcham Union Workhouse.“Colvin” 3rd edition, 482 *

, The Guildhall and Shirehall. 1783-85. Demolished 1835, as the foundations were unstable. *

Millington’s Hospital, Frankwell.

Almshouse An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the Middle Ages. They were often built for the poor of a locality, for those who had held ce ...

. Built in 1748, but altered by Haycock in 1782. *

The County Gaol 1787-93. Designed by Haycock, but built by

Thomas Telford Thomas Telford (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well ...

. * Preston upon the Weald Moors, Preston Hospital. A former

. Added wings and outer pavilion buildings in 1827. J H and E Haycock. Shrewsbury Prison main entrance

Schools

Allatt’s Charity School, Murivance. Classical facade by Haycock, 1799-1800. *

. Former

Shrewsbury School Shrewsbury School is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in Shrewsbury. Founded in 1552 by Edward VI by royal charter, to replace the town's Saxon collegiate foundations which were disestablished in the sixteenth century, Shrewsb ...

building now Shrewsbury Library. Altered by John and Edward Haycock in 1815. *

. Former Shrewsbury School Headmaster’s House, School Lane.

Church

Berriew Berriew () is a village and Community (Wales), community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. It is on the Montgomeryshire Canal and the Afon Rhiw, near the confluence (Welsh: ''aber'') with the River Severn (Welsh language, Welsh: Hafren, Afon Hafr ...

Church,

. Reconstructed Church in 1803-4.

Country houses

Oakly Park Oakly Park, Bromfield, Shropshire, England is a country house dating from the 18th century. In the early 19th century, the house was restored and extended by Charles Robert Cockerell, Surveyor to the Bank of England for his friend Robert Henry ...

Bromfield, Shropshire Bromfield is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 306, which had fallen to 277 at the 2011 census. Location Bromfield is located near the market town of Ludlow, two miles (3&nb ...

. Remodelled by Haycock (1784–90) and later by C R Cockerell. * Oakley House *

Moreton Corbet Moreton Corbet is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Moreton Corbet and Lee Brockhurst, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. The village's toponym refers to the Corbet family, the ...

Castle. Unexecuted designs 1796. *

Shawbury Shawbury is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The village is northeast of Shrewsbury and northwest of Telford. The village straddles the A53 between Shrewsbury and Market Drayton. The nearest railway station is at Yorton ...

, Acton Reynald Hall. Enlarged 1800 *

Oswestry Oswestry ( ; ) is a market town, civil parish and historic railway town in Shropshire, England, close to the England–Wales border, Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5 road (Great Britain), A5, A483 road, A483 and A495 road, A495 ro ...

Sweeney Hall 1805. Built for T N Parker. Bland,

ashlar Ashlar () is a cut and dressed rock (geology), stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape. The term can also refer to a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, a ...

faced block, with massive

pilaster In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an ext ...

s. *

Forden Forden () is a village near Welshpool in Powys, Wales, formerly in the historic county of Montgomeryshire. It forms part of the community (and community council) of Forden with Leighton and Trelystan with the neighbouring settlements of Trelyst ...

, Montgomeryshire. Gunley Hall 1810. Porch with Ionic columns. *

Lydham Lydham is a small village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. Lydham is situated on the junction of the A488 and the A489 main roads, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Bishop's Castle. There is a market Market is a term used to desc ...

, The Roveries. Stuccoed villa of 1810 for John Oakley. *

Claverley Claverley is a village and civil parish in east Shropshire, England. The parish also includes the hamlets of Beobridge, Hopstone, Upper Aston, Ludstone, Heathton and a number of other small settlements. Claverley village is east of the market ...

, Chyknell. Villa style house 1814. *

Ruyton-XI-Towns Ruyton-XI-Towns ( "ry-tən eleven towns"), formally Ruyton of the Eleven Towns or simply Ruyton, is a village and civil parish next to the River Perry in Shropshire, England. It had a population of 1,379 at the 2011 Census. The preparatory sch ...

, Pradoe. Enlarged 1817. * Stanage Park,

Radnorshire Radnorshire () was Historic counties of Wales, one of the thirteen counties of Wales that existed from 1536 until their abolishment in 1974, later becoming a Districts of Wales, district of Powys from 1974 to 1996. It covered a sparsely populat ...

. Haycock appears to have acted as a building contractor for

John Adey Repton John Adey Repton (1775–1860) was an English architect. Biography John Repton was the son of Humphry Repton, born at Norwich, Norfolk on 29 March 1775, and educated at Aylsham grammar school and later in a Norwich architect's office. From 1796 ...

“Scourfield and Haslam” 415 *

Glandyfi Castle Glandyfi Castle in Glandyfi, Ceredigion, Wales, is a mock castle dating from the early 19th century. It was built for George Jeffreys, a barrister and High Sheriff of Cardiganshire, in around 1819. Jeffreys' great-uncle, Edward, had purchased ...

, 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.

External links

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