The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190794
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09907/30
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190794
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN STREET
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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sessay
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 46156 75117
Details
SESSAY MAIN STREET SE 47 NE (east side, off) 4/39 The Old Rectory 1.5.52 GV II Rectory, now house. C18 with later additions and alterations and reroofed after a fire in the 1920s. Rendered; Welsh slate roof. 2-storey (formerly 3), symmetrical 7-bay front with single-storey wing to left. Plinth. Central bay recessed having entrance with 6-panel double door, top 4 panels glazed, in bolection-moulded architrave under bracketed hood. Narrow sashes with glazing bars and projecting sills. Hipped roof with broad stacks at either end of ridge and another cross-ridge stack at left end. Lower wing on left has C20 French windows to right of sash with glazing bars; roof hipped on left taller single-storey wing behind. Rear: round-arched stair window with glazing bars, radial in head; some sashes with glazing bars. Right return: 3 bays; French windows to ground floor, sashes with glazing bars above; on right, raised verge with gable stack. Left return, wing: narrower 18-pane sashes with glazing bars. Interior: panelled doors; rear right room has stone fireplace with eared architrave, frieze and cornice under mirror flanked by early C19 fitted cabinets; dog-leg, open-string stair with stick balusters and spiral curtail to handrail. The 3rd storey was destroyed by fire in the 1920s, but the ridge of the roof and the chimneys appear to be the original height.
Listing NGR: SE4615675117
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332897
- 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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