The Old Vicarage
THE OLD VICARAGE, MOOR LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179301
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, MOOR LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179301
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, MOOR 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 VICARAGE, MOOR LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cleasby
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 25032 12939
Details
CLEASBY MOOR LANE NZ 21 SE (east side) 5/12 The Old Vicarage (formerly listed as 19.12.51 Parsonage)
- II
Vicarage, now house. Dated 1717, probably with older range to rear. 1717 range for John Robinson, Bishop of London. Roughcast, stone slate roof to main range, concrete interlocking tiles to rear range. L-shaped plan. 2 storeys and loft, 3 bays to main range. Chamfered rusticated ashlar quoins. Central C20 vertically-panelled door, with lozenge-glazed top panel, in ashlar surround with deep bolection moulding. Above the doorway an ashlar plaque with a coat of arms surmounted by a bishop's mitre, and inscribed "1717 Joh Robinson Eps. London". On ground floor to left, early C20 square bay window. Other windows 6-pane unequally hung sashes in timber architraves, and with cornices, and projecting sills supported on brackets. Shaped kneelers, ashlar coping. Brick end stacks. Right return has single- storey lean-to addition, not of special interest, and above it a 9-pane unequally hung sash window and a 6-pane fixed-light window. Further along right return, rear range has a C20 casement window on each floor; shaped kneeler, ashlar coping and brick stack to right end. Interior: not inspected at resurvey but reputed to contain an old dogleg staircase, probably of 1717. John Robinson was born in Cleasby in 1650, became Chaplain to the English Embassy at the Swedish Court c1680, Bishop of Bristol in 1705, Lord Privy Seal in 1711, First Plenipotentiary to the Congress of Utrecht 1712-13, Bishop of London 1714, and died in London in 1723.
Listing NGR: NZ2503212939
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322651
- 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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