The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, UNION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132669
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, UNION STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132669
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, UNION STREET
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, UNION STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Harthill with Woodall
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 49381 80912
Details
HARTHILL WITH WOODALL UNION STREET SK48SE (east side) 4/38 The Old Rectory 29.7.66 (Formerly listed as The Rectory)
GV II
Rectory. Rebuilt c1720 for 2nd Rev John Hewitt (Garbett p.126). Ashlar sandstone, graduated Westmorland slate roof. 2 storeys with attics, 5 x 2 bays. Plinth, raised quoins. Central doorway with panelled door and overlight in bolection-moulded surround beneath segmental pediment. Other bays have unequally-hung 15-pane sashes in raised surrounds. 1st-floor band beneath 5 similar windows, central window having architrave. Eaves cornice and decorative iron gutter brackets. Hipped roof with 3 wooden roof dormers over central bays, central dormer has segmental pediment otherwise triangular pediments. Ashlar stacks to side ridges have diagonally-set chimney pots. Rear: addition to rear has 32-pane sash to stair window. Right return: C19 canted bay-window to ground-floor on left; door in addition to rear has old part-glazed door in ashlar surround beneath stone carved with lion and crown. Left return: original cross-mullioned casement to 1st floor. Interior: fine early-C18 cantilevered oak staircase with alternate barley-sugar and slender, turned balusters. At its foot a cupboard with linenfold panelling reused from old C16 rectory: 5 panels in all, 2 panels high and with carved heads over. 2 plaster roundels with cherubs to stair landing. Curved principal rafters. Attached dwelling known as Rectory Cottage not of special interest. H. Garbett, The History of Harthill-with-Woodall, 1950.
Listing NGR: SK4937980917
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335786
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Garbett, H, The History of Harthill with Woodall, (1950)
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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