The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, HAGG ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322856
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, HAGG ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322856
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, HAGG ROAD
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, HAGG ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Spennymoor
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22623 33758
Details
NZ 23 SW SPENNYMOOR HAGG ROAD (South side) Byers Green
5/59 The Old Rectory
GV II
Rectory, now private house. 1851. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone ridge and gable copings. T-plan with extruded porch. Jacobean style. 2 storey, 4-bay main block, the fourth with full-height porch; 2-storey cross wing at right with one bay to front and 5 on return. South elevation to garden: porch has filleted flat-Tudor-arched door in wide-chamfered stone surround under raised label mould, with recessed soffit under mould. Chamfered stone surround to 2-light window above with vertical glazing bars in paired narrow sashes; single blocked light with chamfered stone surround under gable coping, which rests on moulded kneelers and has bud finial. 3 bays of main range at left have similar windows except for the central one on ground floor, which is wider. Gable of right cross wing projects slightly in front of porch and has paired sashes at left on ground floor, and wide external central stack with offsets, supporting paired diagonally-set square stone chimneys with wide cornices. Steeply-pitched roof has ridge chimneys, copings and finials on all gables, and roll-moulded ridge. Right return has outer bays projecting slightly, and windows in similar style to those of front.
Interior: 4-panel doors in architraves and panelled reveals; stair in C17 style with high grip handrail.
Source: H.C. Surtees, The History of the Parish of Byers Green, (Mainsforth), 1922.
Listing NGR: NZ2262333758
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112260
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Surtees, H C, The History of the Parish of Byers Green, (1922)
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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