The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, TOWN END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121593
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, TOWN END
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121593
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, TOWN END
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, TOWN END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Middleton in Teesdale
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 94764 25703
Details
MIDDLETON IN TEESDALE TOWN HEAD NY 9425 (East side)
24/129 The Old Rectory
GV II Rectory, now private house. Probably early C18 with early and mid C19 alterations. Sandstone rubble with some millstone grit and some painted ashlar dressings, and grit quoins. Roof graduated stone flags, mostly painted, and some corrugated asbestos; flat stone gable copings. Irregular plan. Main block basement, one storey and attic, 3 bays; set-back right wing 2 low storeys, 2 bays, with one-storey, one-bay projecting right extension. Main block has 6 steps up to central renewed door, boarded with Gothick-shaped glazed panels, under thin rendered lintel. Large 16-pane sash at left inserted under narrower grit lintel; corniced oriel inserted at right. Basement has 2 horizontal sliding sashes with glazing bars below oriel. 3 half dormers with Gothick-headed glazing bars under high gables. Roof has gable copings and end chimneys, the right on large square-section external stack. Left return has 2 irregular gables. Right wing has renewed Gothick door in painted architrave at right; blocked 2-light window at left with recessed mullions, and left end chimney; exterior breaking forward has window in blocked door in inner return, and renewed sash with glazing bars under front gable. Stone-flagged roof on back of wing.
Listing NGR: NY9476425703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111930
- 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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