Description

TL 78 SW ERISWELL LITTLE ERISWELL

3/20 The Old Rectory

- II 3 houses, formerly rectory. C16 with major alterations of several periods including remodelling c.1900. Hall range to right with original cross-wing; later extensions to left. Timber framed with much encasing and under-building in rendered masonry. The cross-wing has a jettied upper floor with exposed joist ends on carved brackets, and false half-timbering of c.1900. Plaintiled roof with bands of fishscale tiles and crested ridge tiles, prominent C19 dormers with false half-timbered gables and moulded wooden finials. Paired C19 mullioned and transomed windows. A slate-roofed splayed bay to right. C20 half-glazed entrance doors. A moulded 1st floor beam and other framing is exposed in the cross-wing, which was extended rearwards by 2 bays in late C16 or early C17. A small staircase wing to rear has a good late C17 staircase with moulded handrails, newels with acorn finials and turned balusters. The extensions to left are mainly of late C19, with possible earlier core.

Listing NGR: TL7213780125

External Links

• Wikidata Q26488487

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)