The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, BOAT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151643
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1980
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, BOAT LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151643
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, BOAT 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 OLD RECTORY, BOAT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Sprotbrough and Cusworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 53835 01963
Details
SESOSW SPROTBROUGH
BOAT LANE -/7/139 (west side (off))
07/10/80 The Old Rectory (formerly listed as Sprotbrough Rectory)
II
The first 2 sentences shall be amended to read:- Rectory, now house. Late C17, rebuilt c1820.
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SESOSW SPROTBROUGH BOAT LANE (west side, off)
7/139 The Old Rectory (formerly listed as Sprotbrough Rectory) 7.10.80
II
Rectory. c1850. Stuccoed walling, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 x 3 bays; in Tudor-Gothic Revival style. Gabled central bay breaks forward and has single-storey porch with moulded doorway arch having sunken spandrels; angle buttresses rise as pinnacles; gable copings with cross. Tall flanking windows to main wall have geometrical cast-iron glazing bars. Outer bays have 3-light mullioned windows with chamfered surrounds, Tudor-arched lights and hoodmoulds with large lozenge-shaped stops. 2-light windows to 1st floor in same style, the hoodmoulds of outer windows set beneath corbelled parapet which returns to sides of ashlar-coped central gable having blind rectangular light. Coped end gables, that to left with finial. Tall castellated chimney pots visible to rear of ridge. Garden front on left return, in same style, has recessed central bay with renewed French window. Flanking bays break forward and have 2-storey canted-bay windows. Shafts rise from corbels on each gable to form finials. Parapet of central bay decorated with cusped, blind tracery. 2 ridge-stack bases to pots as seen from front. Flat-roofed projection set back on left has stack in angle with main range.
Interior: contemporary panelled doors and fireplace fittings in Gothic Revival style. Gothic arches in entrance hall, central stair-hall lit by lantern.
Listing NGR: SE5383301962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334560
- 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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