The Old Rectory

Details

HASKETON SHRUBBERY ROAD TM 24 NE (East side) 5/116 The Old Rectory II House. Early and late C19. Brick, painted and rendered, with a slate roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: a drawing of c.1860 shows the house to have its present left hand projecting wing but with a lower axial range of l 1/2 storeys at right of this which has now been rebuilt. The left hand early C19 wing is rendered and has a canted bay window to the ground floor with 3 ogee-headed lights at the front and ogee-headed lights to the angles and concave lead hipped roof above. Oriel window to the first floor with a concave underbelly and 3 similar ogee-headed lights at the front and 2 to the angles with a concave roof. Moulded bargeboards above. To right of this is the post-1860 wing which has 3 bays near-symmetrically disposed. Central doorway with a double-chamfered arch enclosing a porch with a glazed door behind set in a glazed screen. To either side of this at ground floor level are 4-light casements which connect to the central doorway be a continuous hood-mould. These have ovolo-moulded mullions and a chamfered surround. To the first floor at right and left are oriel windows which have a concave underbelly, 2-light windows and gables above. Between these are 2 cambered-headed windows with a continuous sill divided from each other by a king mullion, of 3 lights at left and 2 lights at right (the 2- light right-hand window is a C20 insertion). Spur wall continues at right. The ridge has a C19 stack at left supporting 4 faceted flues with moulded bases and capitals which are joined. To the right and behind the ridge is a massive chimney stack with 6 faceted flues with moulded base and cap. The left side of the house has a projecting gabled wing at left which has a canted bay window to the ground floor with a tripartite window arrangement at centre of 3 x 4 panes with ogee heads to the lights at either side of which are slender lights of 1 x 4 panes with a half-ogee head. To the first floor above these is an oriel window with a concave underbody and a concave lead roof and having 3 ogee-headed lights to the sides. To right of this is the recessed portion which has at ground floor level a projecting canted bay window with tripartite central window, similar to that seen at the centre of the canted bay, at its left. To the first floor is a 2-light casement with 4-centred heads to the lights. Right-hand side of the house has a projecting wing at left with a lean-to to the far left masking an earlier opening and a 1/2-glazed door at right with cambered head. Random fenestration to the west of this face and to the rear.

Interior: staircase of 2 flights with moulded tread ends, shaped balusters which are square with hollow-chamfered corners, and broach stops. Moulded, ramped mahogony handrail.

Listing NGR: TM2517649954

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