St Marys Rectory

RAWMARSH

451/5/20 HIGH STREET 08-OCT-1962 (East side) ST MARYS RECTORY

II*

Rectory, now unoccupied. 1752, altered 1797 and 1820 with later C19 alterations and additions. Built for Christopher Stephenson, Rector, possibly to the designs of James Paine. Coursed, dressed sandstone, Welsh slate roof. 3-bay, gabled, entrance front with added porch and late C19 wing set back to left. 2 storeys with partial attic. Plinth, central bay breaks forward. Central single-storey porch with panelled double doors in Tudor-arched opening flanked by part-ribbed Doric columns. Cornice with Latin inscription beneath panel with cross. Coped gable with fleur-de-lys finial. Flanking bays have ground floor sill band; bay 1 window boarded; bay 3 window blind. Central 1st-floor Venetian window (boarded) in round-arched recess. Bay 1 window part boarded; bay 3 window blind; band set above outer sills. Central bay has small attic sash beneath pediment; half-pediments to outer bays (all raking cornices missing). Corniced stack to right of central bay. Late C19 wing set back to left has projecting lateral stack; extruded corner in angle with main range has sashes. Right return: early C19 stuccoed, curved bay with 2 windows to ground floor, 1st-floor band and 4 sashes to 1st floor. To right 2 sashes with glazing bars to each floor. All ground-floor windows boarded.

Interior: extensively vandalised at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SK4365195877