The Old Rectory
- Date:
- 12 Sep 1999
- Location:
- The Old Rectory, Church Street, Amcotts, North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire
- Reference:
- IOE01/01645/05
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
SE 81 SE AMCOTTS CHURCH STREET (south side)
5/1 The Old Rectory
GV II
Rectory, now house. 1862 by James Fowler of Louth, Diocesan Architect.
Renovations of c1980. Red brick in English bond with ashlar and polychrome brick dressings. Welsh slate roof. Irregular double-depth plan with entrance to north. 2 storeys. Chamfered brick plinth. North front: 3 gabled bays, with projecting wing to right. Central enclosed single-storey porch in angle of right wing has buttress to left with offset, pointed polychrome brick arch with ashlar keystone beneath flat roof; inner entrance with part-glazed panelled door in chamfered reveal beneath moulded ashlar lintel. To right, unequal 9-pane sash in quoined chamfered ashlar surround beneath flush herringbone brick panel and polychrome brick segmental-pointed relieving arch with flush ashlar key. To left, an unequal 6-pane sash in similar surround. First floor: similar 6-pane sashes to side bays, and central pointed plate-traceried 2-light window above porch with lancets and cinquefoiled roundel beneath polychrome brick arch. Flush blue and yellow brick bands at impost and sill levels. Projecting stepped brick eaves to gables. Corniced axial stacks with tumbled-in brick to offsets. Right return forms garden front of 2 bays; gabled wing projecting to right has ground-floor brick canted bay window with sashes in quoined ashlar surrounds below hipped roof; 9-pane sash to left bay in similar surround and with relieving arch as to north elevation, single 6-pane first-floor windows to each bay (that to left beneath gable) in similar surrounds. Small central 4-pane sash in angle of wing with ashlar surround. Similar brick bands and gable details to north front, lateral stack to right return. South side has similar windows, C20 conservatory in angle. Interior. Original details include: Gothic-style chimney-pieces, moulded plaster cornices, panelled doors in architraves. Similar in style to Fowler's Vicarage of 1863 at North Street, West Butterwick (qv).
Listing NGR: SE8557114131
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1749 IOE Records taken by Janet Roworth; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mrs Janet Roworth. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Roworth, Janet
Rights Holder: Roworth, Janet
Ashlar, Brick, Welsh Slate, Victorian Vicarage, Domestic, Clergy House, Clerical Dwelling, House, Dwelling, Conservatory, Gardens Parks And Urban Spaces, Glasshouse, Garden Building, Monument (By Form)
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