The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, QUEENS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040498
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, QUEENS STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08133/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040498
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, QUEENS STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, QUEENS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Culworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 54492 46955
Details
CULWORTH QUEENS STREET SP5446 (North side) 11/38 The Old Rectory
GV II
House, formerly rectory. 1854 with extensions in 1869. By E F. Law for the Reverend Charles Hill. Datestone 1854/C.S.H, on left side. Ironstone ashlar, Limestone dressings, roof covered by snow at time of survey, brick stacks. L-plan. Elaborate Gothic Revival. 2 storeys and attic, 5 bays. Main block to left, 3 bays, has central castellated tower with doorway under pointed stone arch and double half-glazed dour. Gabled bay to right has canted bay window with stone mullions on the ground floor. 3-light stone mullioned and transomed window to left. 2-light stone mullioned window in left bay on first floor. Window of 2 trefoil-headed lights above entrance, and of 3-trefoiled lights to right. Attic windows in right gable and tower, each 2 trefoil-headed lancets. Lower wing set back to right, of 2 irregular gabled bays, has 3-light stone mullioned windows on the ground floor, that to left with transom. Trefoil shaped window in left bay on the first floor. 2 pointed lights with transom in right bay. Interior: Stone staircase with iron balustrade. Marble fireplaces. Ornamental plaster cornices. Stained glass screen at entrance to hall with roundels painted with views of church and rectory. Said to have been built at the expense of The Rev. Charles Hill's father-in-law, a Birmingham bujinessman, (Buildings-of England: Northamptonshire, p.172).
Listing NGR: SP5449246955
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234067
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 172
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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