Old Rectory
OLD RECTORY, CHURCH HILL, WALLASEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258114
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RECTORY, CHURCH HILL, WALLASEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258114
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD RECTORY, CHURCH HILL, WALLASEY
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:
- OLD RECTORY, CHURCH HILL, WALLASEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wirral (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 29577 92098
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/01/2015
SJ 29 SE
2/42
WALLASEY,
CHURCH HILL (north side), Wallasey,
Old Rectory
(Formerly listed as Wallasey Rectory)
20.5.52
G.V. II
House. 1632 built by Dr Snell, with C20 extension to the rear. Stone, the C20 part roughcast. Roof missing at time of resurvey in late 1980s, but was replaced at a later date. 2 storeys with attic, 2 bays. Ground floor has 3-light ovolo-mullioned windows. 1st floor has 3-light hollow-chamfered-mullioned windows with label moulds. 2nd bay has gabled 2-light hollow-chamfered dormer. Central entrance has recessed cambered head. Left return has basement and 2 drip moulds; 3-light window to ground floor, 1st floor and attic. Right return has 2-light ground floor window with lintel of original window on edge. Interior gutted. 1st floor has 2 fireplaces with Tudor heads, that to left inscribed "1685/DOMINUM/GEORG:SNELL/FIERI:FECIT". 2 stacks to rear, between original house and C20 extension.
Listing NGR: SJ2928992966
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 443664
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ashby Pritt, WC, An account of Wallasey, based on that of Mr. Henry Robinson, Schoolmaster there, 1720; with Notes on the Parish, and Extracts from the Registers in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. 43, (1893), 1-62
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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