The Rectory, Attached Archway and Rear Yard Walls with Outshuts is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1952. Rectory. 1 related planning application.
The Rectory, Attached Archway and Rear Yard Walls with Outshuts
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1952
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Rectory, Attached Archway and Rear Yard Walls with Outshuts, the Green, Simonburn, NE48 3AR
- OS grid reference
- NY 870 736
- Coordinates
- 55.05679, -2.20439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rectory, now a private house, features an attached archway and rear yard walls. The building includes a rear wing with a possibly re-set doorway dated 1666 and a front range built in 1725 for Reverend Henry Wastell, along with 19th-century additions and alterations. The structure is made of ashlar sandstone for the front and rear wings, with squared rubble on the returns. It has graduated green slate roofs and ashlar chimneys, following a T-plan layout. The front range has an addition and archway on the right side, with two sections at right angles on the rear, and yard walls and outshuts at the back and side of the wing.
The three-storey, five-bay front features a plinth and raised quoins. The segmental-headed windows have surrounds and aprons with banded rustication. There is a central pair of three-panel doors with a three-pane overlight. The first floor has eight-pane sashes with thick glazing bars, while twelve-pane sashes have been replaced elsewhere. The steep hipped roof has swept eaves, and two stacks rise from the rear wall. A 19th-century stone bay window is located on the left side. The single-storey, two-bay addition has a pitched roof, a corniced stack, and a section of flat-coped wall with an elliptical archway on the right side. The rear wing consists of a two-storey, three-bay section with a horse-mounting block, replaced sashes, and a round-arched stair window; a lower two-storey, two-bay section features a moulded Tudor-arched doorway with a Latin inscription to Reverend Major Allgood and the date 1666. The flat-coped yard walls have a quadrant ramp on the side of the rear section, and there are three linked single-storey outshuts across the back.
The interior has been significantly altered in the 19th century. The front range contains two, four, and six-panel doors within architraves, three-panel internal window shutters, and several small chamfered stone fireplaces on the top floor. The open-well staircase in the rear wing has three flights plus a landing rail, with a ramped handrail on stick balusters.
Local climate
The Rectory, Attached Archway and Rear Yard Walls with Outshuts receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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