The Old Rectory

UPPER BROUGHTON RECTORY ROAD SK62NE (east end) 6/144 The Old Rectory GV II Detached house. Dated 1854. Red brick with blue brick diaper work. Plain-tile roof with gables, half-hips and sprocketted hips over projecting bays. End and lateral stacks rise from external reducing chimney breasts. Two storeys. Gothic Revival style. An ordered but asymmetrical composition consisting of approx. two main parallel ranges with various gabled, hipped and half-hipped projecting bays, and several reducing, projecting chimney breasts. The entrance front breaks forward slightly in the centre under two gables. Ogee headed ashlar open porch with colonnettes and a hood mould and darker brick relieving arch. Oak inner door with strap hinges. Flanking, reducing brick buttresses support a lst-floor 3-light, ashlar, canted bay with lead roof and traceried side lights. To the left of the door is an ashlar plaque with ornamental legend: "NON SIBI SOLI AD 1854" This is set between 2 narrow windows with a 3-light mullioned and transomed window above. To the right of the doorway is a broad projecting chimney breast. The right corner is marked by a diagonally set 2 storey square bay which has cross windows with ashlar dressings. The right return has a 3-light staircase window, with 2 transomes, set between the front and rear ranges. Two later conservatories. The garden front has, to the left, a 2-storey canted bay and a slightly projecting ground-floor square bay with mullioned and transomed window and a gable above. Between the bays is a narrow plate-traceried window. At the right end is a parallel, half-hipped projecting range. Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK6838926273