The Rectory

THE RECTORY, 48, CHURCH WAY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1293974
Date first listed:
19-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:
The Rectory
Statutory Address:
THE RECTORY, 48, CHURCH WAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1293974
Date first listed:
19-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:
The Rectory
Statutory Address 1:
THE RECTORY, 48, CHURCH WAY

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE RECTORY, 48, CHURCH WAY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Northampton
National Grid Reference:
SP 78798 61836

Details

CHURCH WAY 1. 5327 (West Side) Weston Favell SP 7861 13/98 19.1.52. No 48 (The Rectory)

II

2. Circa 1758 with additions 1777. Red brick, 2 storeys and attics, floor band, stone quoins. 5 sash windows under flat arches. Glazed porch. West wing of coursed rubble, stone slates, stone coped side gables. Low brick connecting wing with castellated parapet. Built for the Rev James Henney, author of Meditations among the Tombs. Additions for the Rev Robert Knight. VCH, IV, p 111.

Listing NGR: SP7879861836

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
231990
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1937), 111

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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