Rectory Farmhouse
RECTORY FARMHOUSE, LOW MOORGATE (E SIDE)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149545
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE, LOW MOORGATE (E SIDE)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149545
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE, LOW MOORGATE (E SIDE)
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:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE, LOW MOORGATE (E SIDE)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rillington
- National Grid Reference:
- SE8513274689
Details
SE 8574
11/43
RILLINGTON
LOW MOORGATE
(east side)
Rectory Farmhouse
GV
II
House. C17, incorporating the remains of an earlier house; C18 outshut;
early C19 extension to right; later C19 extension to rear, raised C20.
Dressed stone, some re-used with timber-framed first floor, encased in
brick; rendered and pebble-dashed in 1954; pantile roof and brick stacks.
2-storey, 3-window front with single-storey extension to right. Centre left
C20 board door beneath overlight. 3-light, small-pane horizontal sliding
sashes throughout, except to ground floor right which is a C20 3-light
replacement. End and left of centre stacks. Interior: remains of a wall
plate are visible to the rear of ground-floor rooms to left and right, with
jetty to left of rear door. A scarfed chamfer-stopped spine beam
runs through both rooms to right. Centre room has a chamfered bressumer and
heck to fireplace. Re-used closed-string staircase with pierced splat
mirror balusters, moulded handrail and chamfer-stopped newel post. Chamfer-
stopped spine beam to both first-floor rooms to right. The house has early
documented associations with Byland Abbey. N A Hudleston, Rillington, 1954;
pp 39, 61.
Listing NGR: SE8513274689
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329726
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hudleston, N A, Rillington, (1954), 39
Hudleston, N A, Rillington, (1954), 61
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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