Description

WIGGINTON VICARAGE ROAD
SP 91 SW
(North side)
4/169 The Old Rectory
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GV II
House. Later C17, early C18 extensions to rear and E end. Timber framed
and brick cased, roughcast, exposed frame at E gable of single storey E
extension but otherwise refaced in brick and flint now painted. Old red
tile roofs. A 2 storeys, 2 windows, 2-cells plan house on roadside
facing S, with twin parallel 2-storeys N new wings and low E extension
set back to allow a small gabled porch at SE in gable wall beside a
large projecting plastered E gable chimney. 2 light flush casement
windows with small panes and segmental arches to ground floor. 2 square
and one cruciform tie rod plates at floor level on front. Large E room
has an axial chamfered beam and large open fireplace with narrower
service room at W. NW rear wing a kitchen with wide gable fireplace.
Stair not in original position. Former wall plate a little above floor
level in rear wall supports heightened studs of rear N wall. Corner
posts, raised wall plates and tie-beams. 2 bays, clasped-purlin roof
strutted from partition tie-beam. At some time roof lathed and plastered
up to apex. Rear wings of brick roughcast but with timber frame N gable
triangles. Formerly called The Old Cottage. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: SP9392310296

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26346430

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Recommended Books

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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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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments