The Old Rectory

BOLTON ABBEY B 6160 SE 05 SE (east side, off)

8/70 The old Rectory

10.9.54 II* GV

House. C15 and late C17. Ashlar, coursed squared stone, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 7 bays, with a 1-storey, 2-bay block at right angle to main house connected by a wall. Main house: full-height gabled porch. Raised quoins. Half-glazed door, rusticated surround and voussoirs, semicircular dripmould. Above a 4-light double-chamfered mullioned window with central major mullion and carved tablet over, below triangular headed hoodmould. Bay 1 has two 4-pane sashes in moulded surrounds, bay 2 has an adjoining pair of 4-pane sashes in similar surrounds with central mullion. To right a dripmould over blocked doorway. Bay 3 has a 2-light chamfered mullion and transom window. Bay 5 has a similar 4-light window with central major mullion. Bays 6 and 7 have full-height 8-pane sashes in moulded surrounds with central mullions. First floor: all bays have 4-light double- chamfered mullion windows apart from that to left of porch which has 2-lights. Shaped kneelers, stone coping. Gable crosses to porch and right- hand gable. Ridge stacks and one large external gable stack to left-hand side. Rear: C15 six-light window, with round head and cusped lights. Block to right of house: quoins, board door with four-centred arch lintel. To right 2 large 36-pane sashes in plain stone surrounds. Right return: 2 offset buttresses. Left return: C15 mullioned window. History: originally the Priory infirmary, then it became Boyle School as commemorated on the plaque above the porch first-floor window.

Listing NGR: SE0738054144