Description

GONALSTON THURGARTON ROAD SK 64 NE (south side) 4/62 The Old Rectory 7.8.52 II Rectory, now house. Early C18 with some early and mid C18 outbuildings, late C18 garden front and alterations to the entrance front, some later C19 and C20 alterations. Entrance front, redbrick. Plain tile roof. 2 red brick gable stacks. Raised, brick coped gables with kneelers. Dentil eaves. Double depth plan. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central doorway with panelled door and decorative glazing bar overlight. Porch with 2 slim columns and dentil cornice. Either side are single tripartite glazing bar sashes under segmental arches. Above left is a single, smaller glazing bar sash with similar glazing bar casement on the right, both under segmental arches and single central dropped round arched stair light. To the left of the right sash is a further window. To the right, set back, is an early C18 red brick and plain tile lower 2 storey, 4 bay stable with domestic accommodation above. Raised, brick coped gable. Dentil eaves. Single C20 buttress at the right angle. Having from left to right a round arched archway, 2 doorways with plank doors, the right being smaller and a single glazing bar sash. Above is a single casement and to the right a single quadripartite casement both with lead glazing bars. Further right is a mid C18 red brick and plain tile single storey 3 bay outbuilding. Raised, brick coped gable with kneeler and remains of dogtooth eaves. Having from left to right a single glazing bar fixed light, a doorway with double garage door and a single small fixed light. To the left of the house and set back is a red brick and plain tile lower 2 storey 2 bay wing. Raised, brick coped gable with kneeler. Projecting red brick and pantile single storey lean-to with single C20 glazing bar fixed light, to the left is a projecting red brick and pantile single storey wing with 2 C20 glazing bar casements in the side wall. Garden front with some ashlar and slate roof. 2 red brick gable stacks. Raised gables with kneelers, now rendered. Moulded eaves cornice. Set on a narrow plinth. Ground floor ashlar sill band. Two and a half storeys, 3 bays, the single central bay slightly projects and is topped with an open pediment. Central doorway, 5 steps up, with glazing bar and panelled door, panelled reveal and Gothick glazing bar overlight. The projecting hood, supported on wrought iron brackets, has a modillion cornice. Either side are single late C19 red brick and lead canted bays each with 3 glazing bar sashes divided by single ashlar pilasters with entablature. Above, central glazing bar sash flanked by single, similar slightly larger sashes. Above are 3 small glazing bar sashes following the same pattern. First and second floor sashes have flush ashlar lintels with keystones. To the right, set back, is a heightened red brick and plain tile wing with raised, brick coped gable, ashlar coped kneeler and dentil eaves. 2 storey single bay with doorway with C20 glazing bar double door and above a single glazing bar sash. Projecting from the right is a red brick and tile single storey range with 3 doorways with double glazing bar doors and fanlights in the side wall and 2 glazing bar sashes to the front. To the left, set back is the early C18 range. Having round arched archway and to the left a single small C20 glazing bar casement. Above are 4 glazing bar sashes. Further left is the late C18 range with doorway with plank door.

Listing NGR: SK6818747549

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