The Old Rectory

SK 93 NE WELBY CHURCH LANE

2/67 The Old Rectory

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Former Rectory, now House; 1834 by Cornelius Sherborne of Grantham, with C20 alterations. Ashlar with stone coped gables and kneelers to south side, slate roof, stone ridge stack and pair of diagonally set stone stacks on project- ing stack corbelled out from front wall at 1st floor level. Parallel range with single storey wing on north aide. 2 storey with plinth and 1st floor band. Entrance front of 3 bays with central "Gothick" traceried door and adjacent single light under one hood mould, flanked by to left single and to right double lights under hood moulds, in Tudor style with glazing bar case- ments. Above a central 2 light window with similar single light window to left, all as ground floor. To right corbelled chimney and just below that a datestone "1834" and an inscription around a coat of arms recording its construction by C. B. Oatley, Rector. The south front in matching styles has similar single and 2 light windows and a canted bay window. The interior has shutters and plain moulded cornices with simple decorative ceiling corner details; one contemporary 'Tudor' stone fireplace with leafy spandrels and a fine swept staircase with plain balusters. From information supplied by the owner a porch was removed and the single storey wing reduced to that height from 2 storeys by the Church Commissioners' Architect in the 1950s.

Listing NGR: SK9753838101