Description

NORTHMOOR SP40SW 11/213 Rectory Farmhouse 12/09/55 (Formerly listed as Rectory Farmhouse and dovecote) GV II*

Farmhouse. Datestone 1629 above door. Coursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; stone rendered ridge stack and similar gable end stack to left wing. L-plan with front left wing. 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range. Label mould over moulded stone architrave with sunk spandrels framing C18 four-panelled door. Label moulds over ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned round-headed windows, with sunk spandrels, of one, 2 and 4 lights. Two C20 gabled roof dormers. Front left wing of 2-window range: 2 similar one-light windows and canted 3-storey bay window with similar mullioned windows and render over timber-framed upper storey. Similar round-headed and square-headed mullioned windows and 2 early C17 studded doors with chamfered arched surrounds to left side and rear. C18 and mid C19 service ranges of similar materials to right. Interior; left wing; central timber-framed partition, and winder stairs set in timber frame with moulded arched doorframes; front room has moulded stone fireplace, moulded plaster cornice and plasterwork with pomegranate trails etc. to soffit of beam; first floor has similar plasterwork in front room and chamfered beams. 2 units with central lobby-entry to right: newel stairs to right; lobby has moulded arched doorframes; room to right has chamfered beam and open fireplace with hollow-chamfered wood bressumer and stone jambs; room to left has ogee-moulded beam and moulded stone fireplace with sunk spandrels. Room to rear left, former buttery and pantry, has moulded arched doorframe. Rectory Farmhouse stands on a moated site south of the Church of St. Denys (q.v.), and is a good example of an unaltered early C17 house.

Listing NGR: SP4215002825

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