The Old Rectory

THE OLD RECTORY, 30, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075028
Date first listed:
31-Aug-1979
List Entry Name:
The Old Rectory
Statutory Address:
THE OLD RECTORY, 30, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075028
Date first listed:
31-Aug-1979
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:
The Old Rectory
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD RECTORY, 30, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address 2:
THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD RECTORY, 30, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address:
THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Leicestershire
District:
Melton (District Authority)
Parish:
Eaton
National Grid Reference:
SK 77897 26343

Details

In the entry for

SK 7726-7826 EATON MAIN STREET (west side) Goadby Marwood 33/380 The Old Rectory(formerly 31.8.79 listed as The Rectory)

GV II

The address shall be amended to read

SK 7726-7826 EATON MAIN STREET (west side) Goadby Marwood 33/380 The Old Rectory(No 30) 31.8.79 (formerly listed as The Rectory)

GV II

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SK 7726-7826 EATON MAIN STREET (West side) 33/380 Goadby Marwood The Old Rectory 31.8.79 (Formerly listed as The Rectory)

GV II

Rectory, now private house. Circa 1750, raised by a half storey and altered throughout c. 1810. Coursed ironstone and slate roof. 2½ storeys in 5 bays. Central C20 glazed door in rusticated plastered doorframe. 4- vaned Regency fanlight. Fenestration of sashes with glazing bars, all with plastered sills and lintels. Modillion eaves cornice below gabled roof. Internal gable-end stacks of limestone. Interior fittings all early C19 or later: staircase with stick balusters and ramped and wreathed handrail. Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823), inventor of the power loom (1785) was rector here.

Listing NGR: SK7789726343

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
190181
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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