The Old Rectory

NZ 23 SW SPENNYMOOR HAGG ROAD (South side) Byers Green

5/59 The Old Rectory

GV II

Rectory, now private house. 1851. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone ridge and gable copings. T-plan with extruded porch. Jacobean style. 2 storey, 4-bay main block, the fourth with full-height porch; 2-storey cross wing at right with one bay to front and 5 on return. South elevation to garden: porch has filleted flat-Tudor-arched door in wide-chamfered stone surround under raised label mould, with recessed soffit under mould. Chamfered stone surround to 2-light window above with vertical glazing bars in paired narrow sashes; single blocked light with chamfered stone surround under gable coping, which rests on moulded kneelers and has bud finial. 3 bays of main range at left have similar windows except for the central one on ground floor, which is wider. Gable of right cross wing projects slightly in front of porch and has paired sashes at left on ground floor, and wide external central stack with offsets, supporting paired diagonally-set square stone chimneys with wide cornices. Steeply-pitched roof has ridge chimneys, copings and finials on all gables, and roll-moulded ridge. Right return has outer bays projecting slightly, and windows in similar style to those of front.

Interior: 4-panel doors in architraves and panelled reveals; stair in C17 style with high grip handrail.

Source: H.C. Surtees, The History of the Parish of Byers Green, (Mainsforth), 1922.

Listing NGR: NZ2262333758