The Retreat House
THE RETREAT HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140416
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Retreat House
- Statutory Address:
- THE RETREAT HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140416
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Retreat House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RETREAT HOUSE, 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 RETREAT HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Erewash (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Morley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 39696 40881
Details
PARISH OF MORLEY CHURCH LANE SK 34 SE 1/84 (North Side) 2.9.52 The Retreat House (formerly listed as The Rectory) GV II
Rectory, now retreat house. Early C18, mid-C18 and early C19. Red brick with minimal stone dressings. Plain tile roofs. Brick gable stacks and a stack rising between two roofs. Dentil eaves cornice and moulded stone eaves cornice. Double range plan. Three storeys. Six bay south elevation. Symmetrical five bays with additional bay to east. Central doorway with moulded stone doorcase, with pulvinated frieze and bracketed pediment. Half glazed door, flanked on each side by two glazing bar sashes with small stone keyblocks. Plain brick stringcourse linking the keyblocks. The first floor has a central round- window with key and impost blocks and a glazing bar sash. Flanked on each side by two glazing bar sashes under flat keyed arches. The third floor is of half height and has a central bull's eye window with keyblocks at the cardinal points. Flanked on each side by two glazing bar sashes under keyed flat arches. The additional bay to the east is slightly lower and has two glazing bar sashes. All the windows have stone sills. The west elevation has first and second floor brick bands, irregular, partly blocked, fenestration, and visible evidence in the brickwork of the mid-C18 refronting and raising. The north elevation has irregular projections with mostly early C19 fenestration. The interior has two flight return staircase with turned balusters. One front room on the ground floor with painted raised and fielded panelling. One upper room has an early C18 painted stone chimneypiece.
Listing NGR: SK3969640881
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352287
- 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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