The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, B 6160
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1131776
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, B 6160
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1131776
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, B 6160
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, B 6160
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bolton Abbey
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 07387 54140
Details
BOLTON ABBEY B 6160 SE 05 SE (east side, off)
8/70 The old Rectory
10.9.54 II* GV
House. C15 and late C17. Ashlar, coursed squared stone, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 7 bays, with a 1-storey, 2-bay block at right angle to main house connected by a wall. Main house: full-height gabled porch. Raised quoins. Half-glazed door, rusticated surround and voussoirs, semicircular dripmould. Above a 4-light double-chamfered mullioned window with central major mullion and carved tablet over, below triangular headed hoodmould. Bay 1 has two 4-pane sashes in moulded surrounds, bay 2 has an adjoining pair of 4-pane sashes in similar surrounds with central mullion. To right a dripmould over blocked doorway. Bay 3 has a 2-light chamfered mullion and transom window. Bay 5 has a similar 4-light window with central major mullion. Bays 6 and 7 have full-height 8-pane sashes in moulded surrounds with central mullions. First floor: all bays have 4-light double- chamfered mullion windows apart from that to left of porch which has 2-lights. Shaped kneelers, stone coping. Gable crosses to porch and right- hand gable. Ridge stacks and one large external gable stack to left-hand side. Rear: C15 six-light window, with round head and cusped lights. Block to right of house: quoins, board door with four-centred arch lintel. To right 2 large 36-pane sashes in plain stone surrounds. Right return: 2 offset buttresses. Left return: C15 mullioned window. History: originally the Priory infirmary, then it became Boyle School as commemorated on the plaque above the porch first-floor window.
Listing NGR: SE0738054144
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323724
- 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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