Old Rectory

OLD RECTORY, RECTORY LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298421
Date first listed:
18-Sept-1979
List Entry Name:
Old Rectory
Statutory Address:
OLD RECTORY, RECTORY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298421
Date first listed:
18-Sept-1979
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:
Old Rectory
Statutory Address 1:
OLD RECTORY, RECTORY 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD RECTORY, RECTORY LANE

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
South Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:
Barrowby
National Grid Reference:
SK8803936464

Details

SK8836
1315-0/13/33
18/09/79

BARROWBY
RECTORY LANE
(North East side)
Old Rectory
(Formerly Listed as:
RECTORY LANE
Rectory)

II

Rectory, now house. c1588, rendered and refenestrated in
Gothick style early C19. Additions C19 and 1905. Extensively
restored 1991. Coursed squared stone and brick, mostly
rendered, with gabled and hipped plain tile roofs. C19 brick
side wall and ridge stacks, and partly rendered external brick
stack. Stone plinth. 2 storeys plus garrets; 3 x 5 windows.
L-plan.
Windows are mainly casements with 2 pointed arched lights,
those to the first floor with glazing bars. Ground floor
windows are slightly larger. All are renewed.
East front has 5 unequally spaced windows. Between the pair to
left, an external stack with a single lancet on the first
floor. The stack is linked to the roof by a tiled gable with
slate hung sides. Below, similar fenestration. Central opening
with Perpendicular style wooden screen and rendered nogging,
containing a traceried panelled door flanked by single
lancets, all with 4-centred arches.
Left return has a coped gable with kneelers and finial, and a
sundial in the peak. The first floor window, and the smaller
garret window, have cornices. Below, a C19 flat roofed square
bay window with 2 casements. To left, in the return angle, a
set back square single storey porch with heavy cornice, 1905.
Two 12-pane sashes, and to right, a panelled door. Right
return has 3 unequally spaced windows. On the ground floor, a
2-light and a 3-light window with glazing bars. To left, a mid
C20 4-pane window, and to right, a small 8-pane sash.
Much altered interior has at the north end 2 first floor rooms
with early C19 coved ceilings. Early C19 dogleg stair and
landing with double stick balusters. Accessible parts of roof
have C19 structure.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 119).

Listing NGR: SK8803936464

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
382839
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 119

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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