Wycliffe Old Rectory
WYCLIFFE OLD RECTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121663
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wycliffe Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- WYCLIFFE OLD RECTORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121663
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wycliffe Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- WYCLIFFE OLD RECTORY
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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.
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:
- WYCLIFFE OLD RECTORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wycliffe with Thorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 11599 14292
Details
NZ 11 SW WYCLIFFE WITH THORPE WYCLIFFE
7/203 Wycliffe Old Rectory
GV II
Rectory, 1733. Rendered and colour-washed stone with cut dressings; graduated stone slate roof. Rectangular block with projecting wings at each end of south front; and north-east wing.
South elevation 2 storeys, 1 + 3 + 1 bays. 7 steps up to central Tuscan porch, enclosing renewed 6-panel door with 3-pane overlight. Flanking 30-pane sashes with segmental-arched heads; 12-pane sashes above. Lower projecting wings: each has steps up to 32-pane French window; and 16-pane sash above. 12-pane sashes, some renewed, on 1-bay inner returns. Hip-ended roof. Main block roof is hipped to the right and has a coped gable to the left; left end stack and 3 low ridge stacks. 4-bay right return shows 12-pane sashes on both floors. Tall rear elevation above basement has scattered fenestration including tall arched stair window, with intersecting glazing bars, and three 16-pane sashes.
Interior: Fielded-panel doors in moulded doorcases with paterae; folding panelled shutters on H-hinges; moulded cornices; dogleg closed-string stair with urn-on-vase balusters,square fluted newels and moulded handrail.
Two 1st floor rooms at the west end of the Old Rectory are now incorporated into the West House.
Historical note: the house was built at the sole expense of Thomas Robinson, rector 1731-69.
H.D. Pritchett, 'John D. Wycliffe' (reprint of articles in 'Darlington and Stockton Times') 1935, p.1.
Listing NGR: NZ1160014295
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111794
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pritchett, HD, John D Wycliffe, (1935), 1
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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