John Hiram Haycock

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. J. H. Haycock was apprenticed to his father and became a freeman of the Shrewsbury Carpenters’ and Bricklayers’ Company in 1796. From about 1814 John Hiram Haycock worked in partnership with his son Edward Haycock, Sr.. In 1824 he became the Shropshire county surveyor.[1]

John Hiram Haycock
Sweeney Hall, Morda, Oswestry
Born1759
Shrewsbury, England
Died(1830-01-06)January 6, 1830
Shrewsbury, England
NationalityEnglish
OccupationArchitect
PracticeJ H Haycock and Edward Haycock 1814-1830
BuildingsShrewsbury Prison, Allatt’s Charity School, Gunley Hall

Architectural works

Public buildings

Shrewsbury Prison main entrance showing gateway and Governor’s House designed by Haycock

Schools

Church

Berriew Church, Montgomeryshire

Country houses

Gunley Hall, Montgomeryshire From Nicholls “Annals and Antiquities of Wales”,1872. Vol 2, 799

References

  1. Colvin H. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 Yale University Press, 3rd edition London, 2008 481-2.
  2. “Colvin” 3rd edition, 482
  3. “Newman and Pevsner” 544-5
  4. “Newman and Pevsner” 545
  5. “Newman and Pevsner” 570-1
  6. “Newman and Pevsner” 538
  7. R Scourfield and R Haslam "The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire" Yale University Press 2013, 80
  8. Reid P “Burke’s and Savills Guide to Country Houses, Vol II, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire” London, 1980, 104-5
  9. “Newman and Pevsner” 212
  10. “Reid” 117, illustrated
  11. J Newman and N Pevsner “The Buildings of England: Shropshire”, Yale 2006, 464
  12. “Scourfield and Haslam” 113-4
  13. “Newman and Pevsner” 391-2
  14. “Newman and Pevsner” 93-4
  15. “Newman and Pevsner” 476
  16. “Scourfield and Haslam” 415
  17. Lloyd, Orbach & Scourfield 2006, p. 471.

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.
  • Lloyd, Thomas; Orbach, Julian; Scourfield, Robert (2006). Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. The Buildings of Wales. New Haven, US and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10179-9. OCLC 71164002.
  • R Scourfield and R Haslam, (2013), "The Buildings of Wales: Powys; Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire, Yale University Press.
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