Description

NZ 23 SW SPENNYMOOR HAGG ROAD (South side) Byers Green

5/59 The Old Rectory

GV II

Rectory, now private house. 1851. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone ridge and gable copings. T-plan with extruded porch. Jacobean style. 2 storey, 4-bay main block, the fourth with full-height porch; 2-storey cross wing at right with one bay to front and 5 on return. South elevation to garden: porch has filleted flat-Tudor-arched door in wide-chamfered stone surround under raised label mould, with recessed soffit under mould. Chamfered stone surround to 2-light window above with vertical glazing bars in paired narrow sashes; single blocked light with chamfered stone surround under gable coping, which rests on moulded kneelers and has bud finial. 3 bays of main range at left have similar windows except for the central one on ground floor, which is wider. Gable of right cross wing projects slightly in front of porch and has paired sashes at left on ground floor, and wide external central stack with offsets, supporting paired diagonally-set square stone chimneys with wide cornices. Steeply-pitched roof has ridge chimneys, copings and finials on all gables, and roll-moulded ridge. Right return has outer bays projecting slightly, and windows in similar style to those of front.

Interior: 4-panel doors in architraves and panelled reveals; stair in C17 style with high grip handrail.

Source: H.C. Surtees, The History of the Parish of Byers Green, (Mainsforth), 1922.

Listing NGR: NZ2262333758

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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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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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)