The Rectory, Attached Archway And Rear Yard Walls With Outshuts

SIMONBURN THE GREEN NY 8773 (West side, off) 19/149 The Rectory, 20/10/52 attached archway and rear yard walls with outshuts GV II

Former Rectory now private house; with archway and rear yard walls. Rear wing with possibly re-set doorway dated 1666; 1725 front range built for Rev. Henry Wastell; C19 additions and alterations. Ashlar sandstone front and rear wings; squared rubble returns. Graduated green slate roofs and ashlar chimneys. T-plan: front range with addition and archway on right return; of 2 builds at right-angles on rear of front range; yard walls and outshuts on rear and side of wing.

3-storey, 5-bay front has plinth and raised quoins. Segmental-headed windows have surrounds and aprons with banded rustication. Central pair of 3-panel doors and 3-pane overlight. 8-pane sashes with thick glazing bars on first floor; replaced 12-pane sashes elsewhere. Steep hipped roof with swept eaves. 2 stacks rise from rear wall. C19 stone bay window on left return. Single- storey, 2-bay addition with pitched roof and corniced stack and section of flat-coped wall with elliptical archway on right return. Rear wing: 2-storey, 3-bay section has horse-mounting block, replaced sashes and a round-arched stair window; lower 2-storey, 2-bay section incorporates a moulded Tudor-arched doorway with Latin inscription to Rev. Major Allgood and date 1666. Flat-coped yard walls with quadrant ramp on side of rear section. 3 linked single-storey outshuts across rear.

Interior greatly altered in C19. Front range: 2, 4 and 6-panel doors in architraves; 3-panel internal window shutters; several small chamfered stone fireplaces on top floor. Open-well staircase, of 3 flights plus landing rail, in rear wing has ramped handrail on stick balusters.

Listing NGR: NY8704273608