The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160065
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160065
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barningham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 08496 10361
Details
NZ 0810 BARNINGHAM BARNINGHAM VILLAGE (North side)
15/31 The Old Rectory
22/7/76
GV II
Rectory, early C19. Pebbledashed rubble with tooled ashlar plinth and tooled- and-margined dressings; Welsh slate roof. South elevation 2 storeys, 5 windows irregular, all 12-pane sashes with slightly-projecting sills. Hipped roof with small stepped-and-banded stack on right slope. 4-bay left return shows similar fenestration (except in blind right bay) and right-of-centre flush-panelled double doors in raised stone surround; 2 stepped-and-banded lateral stacks. Right return similar but without doorway. Rear elevation shows 20-pane sash stair window.
Interior: Entrance lobby has old half-glazed door with plain overlight; other doors of 6 panels, in moulded doorcases with paterae; panelled shutters. Dining room. has cornice with egg-and-dart and foliage, and ceiling rose. Moulded cornices in sitting room and library. Central hall has panelled arch on paired consoles, cornice with paterae at corners and open-well stair with stick balusters, moulded handrail and curtail step. Moulded elliptical arch on stairhead. Bedrooms have contemporary fireplaces with old ironwork.
The rectory may be coeval with the 1816 rebuilding of the parish church.
The attached servants' wing to the north-west is now Glebe Farmhouse (q.v.). Pent single-storeyed extension on north-east is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ0849610361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111620
- 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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