The Rectory

THE RECTORY, WESTGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1308635
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
The Rectory
Statutory Address:
THE RECTORY, WESTGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1308635
Date first listed:
07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
The Rectory
Statutory Address 1:
THE RECTORY, WESTGATE

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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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:
THE RECTORY, WESTGATE

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
East Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:
Louth
National Grid Reference:
TF 32627 87338

Details

WESTGATE 1 TF 38 NW 1/336 The Rectory GV II 2 Rectory. 1828. Red brick with slate roofs plus brick coped gables and kneelers. 4 tall brick stacks with diagonal shafts. 2 storey main south front, 3 bays with slightly recessed central bay containing a central doorway with a painted 4 centred arched surround with half glazed door. To the left a tall 4 light casement with 4 centred arched heads under a Tudor hood, and to the right a shorter similar window. Above a central glazing bar sash with a 4 centred arched head. Either side are single 2 light cross casements, and above are single blind openings in the gables. The irregularly fenestrated west front has an external stack which has some medieval fragments from the church buried in its masonry, plus a datestone inscribed 1828. Interior has a comtemporary single flight return staircase with early Cl8 re-used balusters;these are probably from the earlier house on this site, other parts of which may well be hidden within the present building.

Listing NGR: TF3262787338

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Legacy System number:
195083
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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