The Old Rectory and Screen Wall
THE OLD RECTORY AND SCREEN WALL, MONKEND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131370
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Screen Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY AND SCREEN WALL, MONKEND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131370
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Screen Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY AND SCREEN WALL, MONKEND
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 AND SCREEN WALL, MONKEND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Croft-on-Tees
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ2879009849
Details
NZ 2809-2909
10/36
19.12.51
CROFT-ON-TEES
MONKEND
(west side)
The Old Rectory and attached screen wall
(formerly listed as 'Rectory')
GV
II
Rectory, now house, and attached screen wall. Early C18, probably with
earlier origins, and with later additions. Orange brick, Westmorland slate
roofs. Irregular plan of later rear additions, main range of 3 storeys, 5
bays. Central part-glazed door in ashlar architrave set within surround
with swept bases, and with consoles supporting dentilled pediment. Sash
windows with glazing bars, crown glass, exposed sash boxes, and flat arches
of contrasting gauged brick, the second-floor windows of 6 panes. First-
and second-floor string courses. Hipped roof. Stacks between second and
third bays and at right end. To left, 2-storey lean-to elevation of added
side range, with no openings to front. To right: single-storey curving
screen wall. Rear elevation: obscured by later service additions. Right
return: of same red sandstone as Croft Church (qv) and with blocked sash-
window-shaped openings. Interior: windows have shutters; ground-floor doors
of 6 fielded panels; early C18 pine open-well staircase with richly-turned
balusters and swept handrail; first-floor doors of 6 vertical panels. There
are cellars below the right-hand rooms, which may be part of an earlier
building. Scratched on the glass of a rear second-floor window are mirror-
image graffiti which are thought to have inspired Alice Through the Looking
Glass by "Lewis Carroll", whose father, Rev Charles Dodgson, was Rector of
Croft 1843-1868.
Listing NGR: NZ2879009849
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322675
- 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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