Old Rectory House And Attached Wall And Garage

Old Rectory House and attached wall and garage is an early 18th-century building incorporating earlier fabric, with alterations, extensions, and rebuilding in the early 19th century and further alterations around 1840. The front is rendered to resemble ashlar, with stone coped gables and brick stacks to the tiled front roof, and pantiles to the rear. A shaped gable against the adjacent property has brick coping, while other rendered parapets have moulded stone coping. An orange-grey brick extension features a pantile roof and brick stacks.

The attached wall contains two doors with six raised and fielded panels in moulded surrounds, one beneath a moulded cornice on grooved consoles. The main house front is two stories and two bays at a right angle. The front door has three moulded panels backed with planks. A nine-pane fixed window is to the right of the door, and above is a canted bay with four-over-twelve-over-four-pane sash windows. A bay to the right has a round-arched staircase window with radial glazing. The garden front is two stories and attics, with three bays and a full-height four-light canted bay window in the centre. All windows are twelve-pane sashes. Raised first-floor and eaves bands are beneath a plain parapet that partially masks two small-pane flat-topped dormers in the attic. A single-story garage with a loft is entered through a garage door and has a brick dentilled eaves cornice.

Inside, fragments of timber framing are visible in the cellar beneath the main staircase and in a room on the ground floor. The entrance hall has a moulded dado rail and cornices. One room has a c1700 corner fireplace with sunk-panel jambs, a shaped cornice shelf, and a raised overmantel panel between fluted pilasters with a moulded cornice. Another room has a reeded doorcase with angle roundels, raised and fielded dado panelling, and reeded cornices. A secondary staircase rises to the attics, featuring a close string, stick balusters, turned newel, and a ramped-up handrail. The main staircase rises around an open well to the first floor with a close string, turned balusters, a moulded ramped-up handrail to square newels. The first floor landing has a coved ceiling with a moulded cornice. A corner fireplace has a moulded surround and cornice shelf. A variety of panelled and plank doors, many in panelled reveals, remain throughout the house.

The attached wall is rendered with flat stone coping, and the garage is of red-brown brick in Flemish bond with a hipped tiled roof. The building initially served as a rectory to the Church of St John del Pike, then later to Holy Trinity, Goodramgate.