Description

MIRFIELD UD PINFOLD LANE SE 22 SW (Mirfield)

2/142 The Old Rectory 14/3/66 (formerly listed as No. 13 (Old Rectory)

II*

Private house, former rectory. Probably early C16. The right gable is dated 1540. Extensively modernised probably in early C20. Stone ground floor of C20 date though earlier walling is visible at left end of facade. Timber framed upper floor to facade and right gable. Stone slate roofs. 2 storeys. Rectangular 4-bay main house with penthouse to right side of right gable. C20 wing to rear and recent wing adjoining this. 2 storeys. The main facade has ground floor mullioned windows of 4, 6 and 4 lights and an arched entrance. The upper floor is of 4 bays with close studding. Wooden casement windows, all transomed and of 10, 10, 12 and 8 lights, some have opening side- hung lights. The right gable is stone to ground floor with a 5-light canted bay. 1st floor is jettied and has close studding and diagonal strutting. Peg holes indicate that the gable would have had barge-boards. Finial at apex the pendant part of which has T.S. 1540 (Thomas Savile). In the centre is a 10-light projecting, wooden casement window. The tie-beam of the truss is moulded. To the right is the penthouse which would probably have contained the staircase. Projecting stack to left gable with 2-light double chamfered window left and right 1st floor.

Five sets of posts carrying king-post trusses, with struts, are all visible in the upper rooms. The king posts are braced to ridge. The two rooms to the right, ground floor, have exposed ceiling with main beam and secondary beams, joists and secondary joists, all moulded, probably C17. One room has a wide Tudor arched fireplace with moulded surround, probably C17.

Thomas Savile purchased the Rectory from Kirklees Priory in 1539.

H. N. Pobjoy, A History of Mirfield, 1968.

Listing NGR: SE2098320253

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)