Listed Building: The Old Rectory and attached outbuilding (1041531)

House, formerly rectory. C17 largely rebuilt c.1800. Coursed squared limestone, slate roof, rendered end stacks. L-plan. 3-storey, 4-window range. Principal elevation faces garden to south and has central C20 glazed door with rendered surround in gabled porch of brick, rendered, with limestone dressings. Porch doorway has round-arched head, moulded keyblock, imposts and jambs and moulded stone-coped stepped gable with stone cross to apex; stone above doorway inscribed "PASTORI". C20 'French' windows to ground floor far left with wood lintel. C20 windows replacing 12-pane sashes to ground floor right and left of porch, all with wood lintels. Similar windows to 1st floor with flat-arched heads and C20 windows to attic floor replacing small sashes, with flat-arched heads. Plinth, stepped stone eaves and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Phoenix fire insurance plaque below 1st floor window to right of centre and stone below with long Latin inscription, badly worn in places and obscured by creeper beginning OMNIBUS. Lower wing to right extending to rear with C20 window replacing tripartite sash to ground floor with wood lintel and similar window to 1st floor replacing 12-pane sash with wood lintel. Attached outbuilding projects to far right with pantile roof and datestone to ironstone-coped gable inscribed EB/1790; formerly stable, now garage. Interior: chamfered bressumer and open fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and chamfered bressumer. Spacious open-well staircase with simple carved tread-ends, stick balusters and ramped handrail. Dining room has panelling to window wall panelled dado to one end wall and long row of fitted glazed cupboards to inner wall with broken pediment to central cupboard. Room upstairs has late C18 wood fireplace surround flanked by glazed fitted cupboards. The Old Rectory was rebuilt by Edward Bayley, Rector 1775-1813.

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Sep 5 2023 12:15PM