The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083282
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-09-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/01645/05
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083282
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH 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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Amcotts
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 85571 14131
Details
SE 81 SE AMCOTTS CHURCH STREET (south side)
5/1 The Old Rectory
GV II
Rectory, now house. 1862 by James Fowler of Louth, Diocesan Architect. Renovations of c1980. Red brick in English bond with ashlar and polychrome brick dressings. Welsh slate roof. Irregular double-depth plan with entrance to north. 2 storeys. Chamfered brick plinth. North front: 3 gabled bays, with projecting wing to right. Central enclosed single-storey porch in angle of right wing has buttress to left with offset, pointed polychrome brick arch with ashlar keystone beneath flat roof; inner entrance with part-glazed panelled door in chamfered reveal beneath moulded ashlar lintel. To right, unequal 9-pane sash in quoined chamfered ashlar surround beneath flush herringbone brick panel and polychrome brick segmental-pointed relieving arch with flush ashlar key. To left, an unequal 6-pane sash in similar surround. First floor: similar 6-pane sashes to side bays, and central pointed plate-traceried 2-light window above porch with lancets and cinquefoiled roundel beneath polychrome brick arch. Flush blue and yellow brick bands at impost and sill levels. Projecting stepped brick eaves to gables. Corniced axial stacks with tumbled-in brick to offsets. Right return forms garden front of 2 bays; gabled wing projecting to right has ground-floor brick canted bay window with sashes in quoined ashlar surrounds below hipped roof; 9-pane sash to left bay in similar surround and with relieving arch as to north elevation, single 6-pane first-floor windows to each bay (that to left beneath gable) in similar surrounds. Small central 4-pane sash in angle of wing with ashlar surround. Similar brick bands and gable details to north front, lateral stack to right return. South side has similar windows, C20 conservatory in angle. Interior. Original details include: Gothic-style chimney-pieces, moulded plaster cornices, panelled doors in architraves. Similar in style to Fowler's Vicarage of 1863 at North Street, West Butterwick (qv).
Listing NGR: SE8557114131
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165056
- 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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