The Old Rectory

SE 80 NW KEADBY WITH ALTHORPE MAIN STREET (west side) Althorpe 8/130 The Old Rectory

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Rectory, now house. 1840 by Samuel Marshall of Hull, later alterations to roof. Grey brick in Flemish bond, stuccoed to basement. Welsh slate roof. Square on plan, double depth, with 2-room, central entrance-hall east front, and 2-room principal south garden front. 2 storeys, 4 bays to east and south fronts. Stuccoed basement forms deep plinth with moulded cap. East front: entrance to second bay; single tripartite basement sash to right of entrance with glazing bars beneath cambered arch; flight of 6 stone steps with moulded nosings and curtail steps to segmental-arched entrance with 4- panelled door flanked by 3-pane sidelights over panels, beneath moulded lintel and 6-pane overlight in panelled soffit and reveal. 12-pane sash to right, narrower similar sash to fourth bay; blind recessed window panel to left. 3-course brick first-floor band. First floor: pair of unequal 9-pane sashes to second and third bays, with blind panels to each side. Deep eaves. Hipped roof. Pair of corniced roof stacks. Left return forms garden front: unequal 15-pane ground-floor sashes with sills at plinth level, first-floor band, 9-pane first-floor sashes similar to east front, hipped roof. Pair of side wall stacks. All windows and blind panels with projecting sills and cambered rubbed-brick arches. Rear (north side), 3 storeys with basement, has pair of segmental-arched openings to basement, one blocked, and sashes with glazing bars beneath cambered arches. Interior. Original details include: main entrance vestibule with half- glazed door with margin lights flanked by sidelights above panels; open-well staircase with wreathed handrail, turned balusters and profiled cheek- pieces; moulded plaster cornices to halls and main rooms, moulded ceiling rose to lower hall; marble chimney-piece to south-west dining room (originally drawing room) with decorated pilasters and foliate capitals. The roof, now with a flat central section, was originally double span with a central lantern. Architect's drawings in the Lincolnshire Record Office.

Listing NGR: SE8333509548