The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, 1, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1042720
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, 1, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1042720
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, 1, NORTH ROAD
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, 1, NORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ponteland
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 16539 72906
Details
|this List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/04/2016.
NZ 1672
27/321
27.8.52
PONTELAND
1, North Road
The Old Rectory
(Formerly Listed as: The Old Rectory, MAIN STREET)
II *
GV
Former Rectory, now private house. Early C18, heightened in the late C18.
For Merton College who were the lay rectors of Ponteland. Brick in English
Garden Wall Bond with stone plinth. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys plus attics.
7 bays, the left 2 bays added almost immediately after the rest.
2-leaf, 6 panel door with overlight and semicircular hood, in 5th bay. 12-pane
sashes in shallow reveals with flat arches. lst floor brick band. Gabled roof
with flat coping, right end stack and 3 segment-headed dormer windows.
2-storey lean-to to rear has irregular openings with 12-pane sashes, Yorkshire
sashes and 16-pane sashes.
Interior has late C18 stair with stick balusters. 2 early C18 panelled rooms
(one in added 2-bay left section). Both have 2-panelled doors and wood cornices.
One has fireplace with bolection-moulded surround and round-headed niche with
shaped shelves.
Listing NGR: NZ1654272907
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238812
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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