The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, RECTORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314817
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, RECTORY LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1314817
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE 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.
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:
- THE OLD RECTORY, RECTORY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Finningley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 66948 99051
Details
SK69NE FINNINGLEY RECTORY LANE (south side, off) 8/65 The Old Rectory 4 June 1986 (formerly listed as being on Bawtry Road) - II Rectory, unoccupied at time of resurvey (1987). 1704 for Rev. George Barniston (Woodhouse, pp 25-26); aid C19 addition now reduced in size. Cement rendered, the C19 addition in yellow brick; Welsh slate roofs. H-shaped plan. 2-storey, 5-bay C18 range with central rear wing forming link to 2-storey-and-attic C19 range set parallel to front. C18 facade (south front): ashlar and rendered plinth; central part-glazed door beneath pedimented hood on consoles; projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars in flush wooden architraves; shouldered, yellow-brick end stacks. Left return: C18 gable has weathered date plaque reading 'George/B..../Rector/ 1704'. Flat-roofed C19 porch on left has Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould; above porch the wing has an unequally-hung 15-pane sash window. Gabled mid-C19 wing on left: chamfered plinth; chamfered, quoined stone surrounds to mullioned and transomed wooden casements, of 3 lights to ground floor and of 2 lights to 1st floor and attic. Large kneelers and ashlar gable copings with apex finials; brick stacks at junction with C18 range on right. Right return: C19 wing has a canted bay window to ground floor, otherwise as other gable. Interior: ground-floor room on left of C18 facade has iron firebasket in pine surround with pulvinated frieze and cornice. Rev. G. A. Woodhouse, Finingley, 1877.
Listing NGR: SK6694899049
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334766
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Woodhouse, G, Finningley, (1877)
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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