The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065979
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-10-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/00909/02
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- © Mr A J Ridsdale. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065979
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN 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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Barwick in Elmet and Scholes
- National Grid Reference:
- SE3999137400
Details
SE3937
17/23
3.2.67
BARWICK IN ELMET AND SCHOLES
MAIN STREET LS15
(east side, off),
Barwick
The Old Rectory
GV
II
Rectory now house. Late C17, but before 1695 for the Reverend Jordan Tancred,
early C19 alteration. Rendered brick, Westmorland green slate roof. Double-depth.
2 storeys and attics. 5-bay facade, symmetrical originally.
Garden front: rusticated quoins. Central doorway, perhaps a window originally.
1st and 2nd ground-floor bays altered with C19 canted bay window. All other bays
have sash windows with projecting sills and flush-wood architraves. Moulded
gutter brackets. 2-span hipped roof with 2 original small dormers with hipped
roofs and 4-pane sashes. 2 end stacks (reduced in height), that to right embraced
by small gable and has lower ridge connected to slope of hip. Attached to right
and left are later additions not of special interest. Rear, fronting yard, forms
entrance front: fenestration as front; added early C19 square porch, doorway with
astragal glazed overlight; frieze, casement-moulded cornice and blocking course.
Interior: rear doorway opens into wide stair-hall with 2 facing doorways with
architraves, panelled inner surrounds and 6-panel doors with raised-and-fielded
panels. To left, at right angles, doorway with glazed fanlight and dentil impost
in architrave with false keystone. Facing this door dog-leg closed-string
staircase of fine quality: oak moulded handrail, square newels and finely-turned
chunky balusters of iron-twist surmounted by vase-shaped baluster; panelled dado
with raised-and-fielded panels. Dining-room has dentil cornice to ceiling and C19
panelled window shutters. The attics have steeply-pitched roofs with principal
rafter trusses with high collars and diamond-set ridge pieces.
The best example of a Queen-Anne house within the parish. Thoresby tells us that
the "Reverend Mr. Jordan Tancred the present Rector (of the Church of All Saints,
Barwick (q.v.)), and Chaplain of his Grace the Duke of Leeds, is now building here
a stately house for himself and his successors". Tancred died 7th June 1695 so the
house must be before this. He was succeeded by George Flaxton who resided at the
Rectory from 9th September 1703.
Ralph Thoresby, Ducatus Leodiensis, (1715) p234.
Listing NGR: SE3999137400
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422504
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thoresby, R, Ducatus Leodiensis, (1715), 234
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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