THE OLD RECTORY, WALL AND GATE PIERS

THE OLD RECTORY, WALL AND GATE PIERS, DALLYGATE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1147917
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY, WALL AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY, WALL AND GATE PIERS, DALLYGATE

User submitted image — Uploaded by Julie Potton This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/07417/26
Rights:: © Mr Terence G. Onyon. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1147917
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY, WALL AND GATE PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD RECTORY, WALL AND GATE PIERS, DALLYGATE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY, WALL AND GATE PIERS, DALLYGATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: South Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Ponton
National Grid Reference:: SK 92461 30422

Details

GREAT PONTON DALLYGATE SK 93 SW 4/95 19.2.52 (north side) The Old Rectory, wall and gate piers. (Formerly listed as Rectory G.V. II* Former rectory, now house, wall and gate piers. C14, enlarged c.1520 by Antony Ellis, wool merchant of the Staple of Calais. Altered C17 and perhaps cut down then, extended and altered possibly c.1826 by J. Langwith, C20 alterations. Coursed squared limestone rubble, ashlar quoins and dressings, pantile roof having, to the front only,with raised crow stepped gable with finial, central ridge ashlar stack. 2 storey with garret, having plinth and moulded string course, 5 bay entrance front. The left hand 3 bays are advanced and roofed under a catslide, containing planked door with to left a 2 light casement and to right a small opening. To the right is a C16 stair turret with facetted corner and single upper light. Beyond a 4 light C16 window and a panelled door with 4 centred head and hood mould. Above a further 4 light C16 window. To the right a lower C18 and C20 kitchen range. The 4 bay garden front shows much evidence of rebuilding, possibly where external stacks have been removed. To the right a French door in a C17 window opening, a 3 light C17 window and 2 C16 4 light windows, possibly reset. To first floor single C16 3 light and 4 light windows, and a 2 light C17 window. In the gable end single C16 4 light windows to ground and first floor and to garret a 2 light window. All C16 windows have cavetto mullioned windows with arch heads to the lights, bowtell moulded surrounds, drip mouldings. Interior. The C14 phase is represented by the wall between the parlour and lean-to range which has 3 pointed openings, 2 now blocked, possibly fossilizing earlier service entrances. The parlour chimney stack was possibly inserted C17. The ceiling girders are moulded, with run out stops, picked out with diagonal steps of black, ochre and red. The joists are also chamfered and stopped. The newel stair is C17 with turned bobbin balusters, moulded handrails, square newels with carved tops. On the first floor is an interesting series of C16 wall paintings in red and yellow, with stylised trees, peacocks and deer. The oak clasped purlin roof has queen post trusses and arched wind bracing. Attached to the gable end is a wall to the right and a gateway with square rusticated ashlar piers, moulded bases and hemispherical coping. To left a planked door with ashlar surround, incised lintel and above a coped wall. The Ellis family were related to the Coney family, also wool merchants, of nearby Bassingthorpe. Anthony Ellis built the adjacent Parish Church in 1519. Source: D. L. Roberts.

Listing NGR: SK9246130422

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 193336
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.