Building record 2853/0/108 - The Rectory

A former millers house of the mid 18th century that has been converted into a rectory, extended C20. Probably by Edward Applegarth. The house is situated between the Church of All Saints and Willow Brook at the southern end of the village. The building is constructed of squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and a double pitch Collyweston slate roof with ashlar end chimney stacks and parapets. It is two stories high with an attic range lit by three gabled dormer windows. The main front has a three window range of sash windows with a raised ashlar band between the floors. The door is in the centre with a flat roof porch held up by four pillars.

{1} Mill house, now Rectory. Mid C18 probably by Edward Applegarth, extended C20. Squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings with attic. Main front is a 3-window range. Central 6-panel part-glazed door has rectangular fanlight with glazing bars and plain ashlar surround. Early C19 flat-roofed porch, with pillars. 6-paned sash windows with ashlar surrounds and keyblocks. Ashlar quoins, raised band between floors and below eaves. 3, gabled, roof dormers with sash windows. Ashlar gable parapets an ashlar end stacks. C20 single-storey extension set back to left. Rear elevation has catslide roof with dormer windows, central doorway and casement windows under wood lintels. Interior not inspected but staircase said to have shaped tread brackets and Chinese fret balustrade, now boxed in. Room to left of entrance has plain panelling. Room to right of entrance has blocked external door in side wall, giving access to the adjacent Apethorpe Mill (Parish Hall) (q.v.). (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p99)

{3} Plan; probably the house built before 1754 by Applegarth on the site of 'a cottage near the watermill'.

{4} Undated photo, also photo dated March 1987;

<1> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, p.64 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN40683.

<2> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 12/121 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 99-100 (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in King's Cliffe (Photographs). SNN112705.

<5> Historic England, Undated, THE RECTORY, KINGS CLIFFE, BF084136 (Archive). SNN114449.

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