The Rectory

HICKLING MAIN STREET SK62NE (east side) 6/80 The Rectory 25.9.79 GV II Rectory. Late C18 main range with early C19 front wing and additions. Red brick. Plain tiles and pantiles to the roof. The front wing has a hipped slate roof with broad oversailing eaves and broad lateral stacks. The C18 main range is of 2 storeys with garrets and the early C19 front wing of 3 storeys, the rest 2-storeys. The east-west C18 range has a 90° wing connecting it to the early C19 parallel front range to the south giving an H-plan. There is a later C19 2-storey gabled addition at the rear of the connecting wing, and a further lower, later C19 wing at 90° to the C18 range to the north. The early C19 front range has a stone plinth and is of 4 bays with an added 2-window, single storey square bay to the left with cornice and parapet. 15-pane sashes to ground floor, 12-pane sashes to 1st floor and 6-pane sashes to 2nd floor all with stone lintels. The C18 range has a broad central projecting stack with small windows on its right and a garret window to the left. The dentil eaves cornice is brought across the gable and with the verge treatment forms a pediment, broken by the stack. The link-block to its right has the main entrance with 6-panel door, overlight architrave and small cornice. On the rear gable end are 12-pane sashes with small, 3 over 9-pane attic sashes in the pediment. Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK6916629314