Wilford Rectory
WILFORD RECTORY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247114
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Wilford Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- WILFORD RECTORY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247114
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Wilford Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILFORD RECTORY, CHURCH 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:
- WILFORD RECTORY, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 56690 37775
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK53NE CHURCH LANE, Wilford 646-1/7/808 (East side) 12/07/72 Wilford Rectory (Formerly Listed as: WILFORD Rectory)
GV II
Rectory. c1720. For Benjamin Carter, rector 1694-1733. Altered C18 and C19. Addition to east, mid C19. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs with coped gables. 4 gable and single valley stacks. EXTERIOR: rendered plinth, first floor and eaves bands, dentillated eaves cornice. 2 storeys plus attics; 5 window range. Double range plan. Symmetrical front with half-round ashlar steps, 8-panel door and overlight. To left, two 15-pane sashes, and to right 2 similar windows, reglazed. Above, 5 identical glazing bar sashes. Attics have 3 dormers with segmental and triangular pediments. C19 addition, to right, 2 storeys, has a ridge stack. Canted 2 storey bay window, 3-lights, with plain sashes and brick cornice. Rear has a panelled double door and overlight, flanked by large glazing bar casements. To right, flat roofed canted brick bay window, 3 sashes. Above, central round-arched stair window flanked by 2 glazing bar sashes. Attics have 3 hipped dormers. INTERIOR has central dogleg stair with panelled soffit and turned balusters, with ramped scrolled handrail. Panelled study, formerly parlour, has moulded cornice and panelled wooden chimneypiece and overmantel. Panelled dining room has bay window, mid C18, and fireplace, C19. Unusual example of a purpose-built rectory still in use. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 272; The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Barley MW & Smith P: The Buildings of the Countryside, 1500-1750: 127; Church Guide: Wright A: Wilford: 1978-).
Listing NGR: SK5669037775
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455823
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wright, A, Wilford Church Guide, (1978)
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 272
Barley, M W, Smith, P, The Agrarian Buildings of England and Wales in The Buildings of the Countryside 1500-1750, (), 127
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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