Sprotbrough Rectory / The Old Rectory

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SESOSW SPROTBROUGH

BOAT LANE -/7/139 (west side (off))

07/10/80 The Old Rectory (formerly listed as Sprotbrough Rectory)

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The first 2 sentences shall be amended to read:- Rectory, now house. Late C17, rebuilt c1820.

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SESOSW SPROTBROUGH BOAT LANE (west side, off)

7/139 The Old Rectory (formerly listed as Sprotbrough Rectory) 7.10.80

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Rectory. c1850. Stuccoed walling, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 x 3 bays; in Tudor-Gothic Revival style. Gabled central bay breaks forward and has single-storey porch with moulded doorway arch having sunken spandrels; angle buttresses rise as pinnacles; gable copings with cross. Tall flanking windows to main wall have geometrical cast-iron glazing bars. Outer bays have 3-light mullioned windows with chamfered surrounds, Tudor-arched lights and hoodmoulds with large lozenge-shaped stops. 2-light windows to 1st floor in same style, the hoodmoulds of outer windows set beneath corbelled parapet which returns to sides of ashlar-coped central gable having blind rectangular light. Coped end gables, that to left with finial. Tall castellated chimney pots visible to rear of ridge.

Garden front on left return, in same style, has recessed central bay with renewed French window. Flanking bays break forward and have 2-storey canted-bay windows.

Shafts rise from corbels on each gable to form finials. Parapet of central bay decorated with cusped, blind tracery. 2 ridge-stack bases to pots as seen from front. Flat-roofed projection set back on left has stack in angle with main range.

Interior: contemporary panelled doors and fireplace fittings in Gothic Revival style. Gothic arches in entrance hall, central stair-hall lit by lantern.

Listing NGR: SE5383301962

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0420 IOE Records taken by David Clayton; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr David Clayton. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project