The Old Rectory

THE OLD RECTORY, GREAT COATES ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1379844
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:
The Old Rectory
Statutory Address:
THE OLD RECTORY, GREAT COATES ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1379844
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:
The Old Rectory
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD RECTORY, GREAT COATES ROAD

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD RECTORY, GREAT COATES ROAD

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

District:
North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Great Coates
National Grid Reference:
TA 23396 09814

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2309NW GREAT COATES ROAD, Great Coates
699-1/14/100 (East side)
31/10/74 The Old Rectory

GV II

Rectory, now house. Early C19 with earlier origins, later C19
bay windows and C20 alterations, including rebuilding to rear.
Yellow brick in Flemish bond. Roof of locally-made "French" or
"Scottish"-style clay tiles. Rectangular on plan: 2-room
central entrance-hall front with study and kitchen range to
rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3-window range; symmetrical, with single
full-height canted bays to left and right returns. Plinth.
Reeded panelled doorcase with cornice and hood; C20 door in
panelled reveal beneath 3-pane overlight. 6/6 C20 replacement
sashes to ground floor in flush wood architraves beneath
cambered wedge lintels.
Central 4/4 first-floor sash flanked by 6/6 sashes. Stepped
eaves with wooden eaves board. Hipped roof with one mid-roof
stack to left and right. Canted bay to left return has steps
to French window beneath overlight with glazing bars, flanked
by 4/4 sashes in reveals; dentilled brick first-floor band
with moulded sandstone first-floor sill band, central 6/6
first-floor sash flanked by 4/4 sashes; wooden eaves board.
Bay window to right return is similar, apart from having a
single brick band above ground-floor windows.
The right return has earlier red-brown brickwork and straight
joints, probably part of an earlier rectory house.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has coved ceiling cornice and foliate
ceiling roundel. Staircase hall has open-well staircase with
wreathed and swept handrail, rib-moulded stick balusters, and
columned newel; ceiling with coved cornice and ribbed frieze
with paterae. 6-panel doors in ribbed architraves; panelled
window shutters and reveals.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 344; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.128; Grimsby Planning
Department: Great Coates Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1972-: NO.128).


Listing NGR: TA2339609816

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Legacy System number:
479278
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 344

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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