The Old Rectory

SJ 45 NW ALDFORD C.P. CHURCH LANE (North side) 6/12 The Old Rectory

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House, 1897 by T M Lockwood and Sons, built at the expense of the 1st Duke of Westminster. Red brick with blue diapering on red sandstone plinth and dressed in yellow and red sandstone. Roof of small Westmorland slates. Stone-banded brick chimneys with octagonal attached flues. Two and a half storeys with four bays to garden front; the first, second and fourth from the left have stone-capped gables Elizabethan in manner; the stone window surrounds have ovolo reveals, heads, transomes and (recessed) mullions. Labels over second storey windows in gables; straight, moulded drips over third storey windows (which retain leaded glazing). Entrance front has 3 storey projecting porch with 12-light mullioned and transomed window to stair; kitchen wing of 1 storey, right, terminates in shaped gable and has a cupola over a louvred ventilator of pine on the ridge. Interior. Pine open-well newel stair of 3 flights with heavy turned balusters and deep handrail; panelling beaneath string. 6-panel doors; with broken pediments in hall. A good example of Lockwood's mature style for substantial parsonage houses.

Listing NGR: SJ4201359449