Old Rectory

BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9237 HIGH ROAD, Manthorpe 1315-0/11/125 (North West side) Old Rectory GV II

Rectory, now a house. Dated 1847. Probably by G G Place of Nottingham, who designed the nearby Church of St John (qv). Coursed squared stone, ashlar and red brick, with ashlar dressings and steep pitched slate roofs. Various flat ashlar stacks with a frieze of trefoils and chamfered coping. Tudor Revival style. Quoins and coped gables; main block has decorative ridge tiles and a gable stack. 2 storeys; 3 window range. Windows are mainly C19 casements with stone surrounds and chamfered mullions. 2 storeys; 3 window range. L-plan. Entrance front has 2 gabled through-eaves dormers with 3-light cross casements, and between them, set lower, a 2-light mullioned window. Below it, a similar smaller window flanked to left by a segment headed board door with strap hinges and mullioned overlight. Beyond the door, a shouldered external side wall stack. To right, a 3-light cross casement. Ashlar facing gable, to left, has a 3-light cross casement on each floor, the lower one larger probably provided, like the church, by the Brownlow family of Belton House. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 550).

Listing NGR: SK9204637908