The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192384
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192384
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN ROAD
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 ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lowick
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 97638 80924
Details
SP9780
13/111
LOWICK
MAIN ROAD
(West side)
The Old Rectory
GV II
Rectory, now house. 1855/6 by Edward Browning for Reverend Pretyman. Squared
coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roofs. Complex double-depth plan. 2
storeys. Entrance front is a 5-window range with gables breaking forward to left
and right. 2-storey gabled porch, attached to right gable, has arch-head door
with moulded stone surround. Stone mullion oriel window above. Large square-head
stone mullion stair window, with tracery, to left of porch. Other windows have
stone mullions, some have hood moulds with carved label stops. Ashlar gable
parapets. Ashlar stacks at ridge and ends have flues linked by arches. Elevation
to right has square bay window with stone mullions to left and gable to right
with lateral stack. Garden front to rear of entrance front has irregularly
spaced gables to left and right and canted bay window with stone mullions to
left. 2-storey gabled building attached to far right of garden front was
originally probably intended for parish facilities, but now forms part of house.
Interior: entrance hall has staircase around open well with Gothic style
balustrade, some doors have Gothic panelling. During C19 Reverend Lucas Collis
entertained literary figures here including Anthony Trollope and George Eliot,
who are said to have done some of their writing here.
(V.C.H.: Northamptonshire, Vol.3, p.213; Strapentoria, Vol.5, p.7 by J.
Brassington; Northamptonshire Records Office, Architectural drawings
collection).
Listing NGR: SP9763880924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232545
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1930), 213
Brassington, J, Strapentoria, (), 7
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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