The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129949
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129949
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH LANE
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 LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldford and Saighton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 42013 59449
Details
SJ 45 NW ALDFORD C.P. CHURCH LANE (North side) 6/12 The Old Rectory
II
House, 1897 by T M Lockwood and Sons, built at the expense of the 1st Duke of Westminster. Red brick with blue diapering on red sandstone plinth and dressed in yellow and red sandstone. Roof of small Westmorland slates. Stone-banded brick chimneys with octagonal attached flues. Two and a half storeys with four bays to garden front; the first, second and fourth from the left have stone-capped gables Elizabethan in manner; the stone window surrounds have ovolo reveals, heads, transomes and (recessed) mullions. Labels over second storey windows in gables; straight, moulded drips over third storey windows (which retain leaded glazing). Entrance front has 3 storey projecting porch with 12-light mullioned and transomed window to stair; kitchen wing of 1 storey, right, terminates in shaped gable and has a cupola over a louvred ventilator of pine on the ridge. Interior. Pine open-well newel stair of 3 flights with heavy turned balusters and deep handrail; panelling beaneath string. 6-panel doors; with broken pediments in hall. A good example of Lockwood's mature style for substantial parsonage houses.
Listing NGR: SJ4201359449
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55207
- 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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