The Rectory, Attached Archway and Rear Yard Walls With Outshuts
THE RECTORY, ATTACHED ARCHWAY AND REAR YARD WALLS WITH OUTSHUTS, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178407
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Rectory, Attached Archway and Rear Yard Walls With Outshuts
- Statutory Address:
- THE RECTORY, ATTACHED ARCHWAY AND REAR YARD WALLS WITH OUTSHUTS, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178407
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Rectory, Attached Archway and Rear Yard Walls With Outshuts
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RECTORY, ATTACHED ARCHWAY AND REAR YARD WALLS WITH OUTSHUTS, THE GREEN
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 RECTORY, ATTACHED ARCHWAY AND REAR YARD WALLS WITH OUTSHUTS, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Simonburn
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 87042 73608
Details
SIMONBURN THE GREEN NY 8773 (West side, off) 19/149 The Rectory, 20/10/52 attached archway and rear yard walls with outshuts GV II
Former Rectory now private house; with archway and rear yard walls. Rear wing with possibly re-set doorway dated 1666; 1725 front range built for Rev. Henry Wastell; C19 additions and alterations. Ashlar sandstone front and rear wings; squared rubble returns. Graduated green slate roofs and ashlar chimneys. T-plan: front range with addition and archway on right return; of 2 builds at right-angles on rear of front range; yard walls and outshuts on rear and side of wing.
3-storey, 5-bay front has plinth and raised quoins. Segmental-headed windows have surrounds and aprons with banded rustication. Central pair of 3-panel doors and 3-pane overlight. 8-pane sashes with thick glazing bars on first floor; replaced 12-pane sashes elsewhere. Steep hipped roof with swept eaves. 2 stacks rise from rear wall. C19 stone bay window on left return. Single- storey, 2-bay addition with pitched roof and corniced stack and section of flat-coped wall with elliptical archway on right return. Rear wing: 2-storey, 3-bay section has horse-mounting block, replaced sashes and a round-arched stair window; lower 2-storey, 2-bay section incorporates a moulded Tudor-arched doorway with Latin inscription to Rev. Major Allgood and date 1666. Flat-coped yard walls with quadrant ramp on side of rear section. 3 linked single-storey outshuts across rear.
Interior greatly altered in C19. Front range: 2, 4 and 6-panel doors in architraves; 3-panel internal window shutters; several small chamfered stone fireplaces on top floor. Open-well staircase, of 3 flights plus landing rail, in rear wing has ramped handrail on stick balusters.
Listing NGR: NY8704273608
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240833
- 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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