The Old Parsonage

GILLING WITH HARTFORTH HIGH STREET NZ 1805-1905 AND SEDBURY (east side) Gilling West 14/107 No 122 (The Old Parsonage)

GV II

House. Late C17 with later alterations. For the Whartons of Gillingwood. Rubble, pantile roofs. Cruciform plan; 2 storeys, 1:1:1 bays, with central projecting 2-storey porch, and matching rear stair turret, also C20 rear extensions. Quoins to main range and porch. Openings have brick flat arches. On ground floor of porch, 4-panel door below overlight. Sash windows with glazing bars and exposed sash boxes. On left-hand corner, an old wrought-iron lamp bracket. Hipped roof to porch. Ashlar coping. End stacks, that to left external, having also been extended outwards in brick. Small single-storey extension recessed to right, with stone slate roof and ashlar coping to right. The building was rented by successive C18 vicars from the Wharton family, who were patrons of the living at Gilling. Laybourn K, Historical Notes on the Parish Church of Gilling West, North Yorkshire, (1979), pp 10, 11, 14, 30.

Listing NGR: NZ1850905452