The Rectory

MATERIALS: the building is of ironstone with quoins and plinth of cream-coloured, ashlar limestone and a slate roof covering. To the north-east is a three-storey extension in red brick.

PLAN: the building is made up of three separate elements. A square section to the south, possibly the oldest part of the house, has an ‘M’ profile roof arranged on an east-west alignment. A six-bay Georgian wing along the western façade has a hipped roof incorporating a northern bay of differing proportions. The three-storey element to the north-east is gabled to the north and south.

EXTERIOR: the main body of the building is of two storeys, with a three-storey north-east extension. The principal western elevation has six bays, with a wider northern bay and five bays in a symmetrical arrangement to the south. The southern two bays contain blind windows. The northern bay is significantly wider than the remaining five and separated from them by a scar or buttress of ironstone. The elevation comprises three six-over-six sash windows on the ground floor and four on the first floor. The flat headers of the windows are of narrow bricks or tiles. The jambs of the windows of the second, third and fourth bays have infilled surrounds of narrow bricks or tiles. The principal entrance in the fourth bay has a stone porch with two Doric columns and carved entablature.

The side or northern elevation is of rubblestone ironstone, with ashlar limestone quoins. There is a single six-over-six sash window with red brick headers at the left-hand side of the ground floor.

The rear eastern elevation is of a mixture of ironstone and limestone rubblestone, with ashlar limestone quoins. It comprises one six-over-six sash window on the ground floor and two on the first floor, with surrounds of red bricks and red brick flat arches, with a timber doorcase with a projecting cornice in a Georgian style which appears to be a C21 replica. An iron beam is embedded into the masonry between ground- and first-floor levels. The southern half of this elevation is blank with no windows or doors.

The side or southern elevation is also a mixture of ironstone and limestone rubblestone and faces the newly built Rectory and its garden. This elevation is arranged in five bays, with an entrance door in the third bay. All of the windows are six-over-six timber sashes with red brick surrounds. Between the windows, at ground and first floor level, timber blocks embedded in the masonry may be truncated timber members from an adjacent structure now lost.

The likely Victorian, red-brick extension to the north-east comprises two three-over-six sashes at ground-floor level on the north elevation, and an asymmetrical arrangement of windows across two bays and three storeys on the east elevation. The upper windows are uPVC replacements.

Listing NGR: SP8670278487