Description

SJ 86 NE GAWSWORTH C.P. CHURCH LANE

5/6A The Old Rectory

25.7.52

GV I

Rectory, now private house. Late C16. Timber framed with rendered and
painted infill and plain tile roof. Two storeys with attic. Hall
house. Early C19 2-storey gabled porch to centre with pointed arch to
ground floor having roll moulding to rectangular wooden surround with
quatrefoils to spandrels. Jetty to first floor which has two-light
casement window set in close studding. Gable has decorated
bargeboards. To left is hall range with close studded walls and four
arched braces. This has a canted C20 oriel window to ground floor
right with paired 2-light C19 casements at left. Two-light first
floor window at left. To extreme left is a gabled projecting
single-storey wing with slightly projecting C19 window bay. To right
of porch is a late C19 chimney breast in the re-entrant angle with a
canted C19 ground floor bay window adjoining this at right.
Three-light window above and 2-light gabled dormer to attic with
decorated bargeboards. Three and 2-light ground floor windows to
right of this with single light to first floor and similar gabled
dormer to attic at right. To right of this is a projecting
single-storey gabled wing with close-studding and arched bracing and
C20 fenestration.
Rear: Large gabled C19 brick additions to centre and right. To left
is a C19 outshut at ground floor level with close-studded walling to
first floor with arched braces.
Interior: Hall, 2 bays. Truss of cambered tie beam with moulded boss
to centre supported on heavy moulded arched braces with queen posts
above. C20 replacement canted oriel at west end of south wall.
Screened wall at eastern end with three four-centred doors with
moulded frames. Timbered first floor passage above. (Perhaps
originally open gallery). C20 fireplace to North wall incorporating a
C16 panel bearing inscription relating to the Fitton family. To left
of this is a 2-light C15 window with wooden frame, moulded mullion and
ogee heads to lights. Study: moulded ceiling beams with bosses. Mary
Fitton room: Small framing to walls and moulded beams. Moulded
plaster ceiling to passage outside Mary Fitton room. Hall bedroom
truss of cambered tie beam with angled braces. Fireplace of 1724 with
bolection-moulded surround and painted panel to overmantel recording
the restoration of the building by the Rector, William Hall. A later
restoration, in 1873, was by Norman Shaw.
One of the best preserved medium-sized houses of the period in
Cheshire, particularly valuable for the survival of the open hall.

Sources: Nikolaus Pevsner & Edward Hubbard - The Buildings of England,
Cheshire. Raymond Richards, The Manor of Gawsworth. Andrew Saint,
Richard Norman Shaw, 1976, p.411

Listing NGR: SJ8897769777

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Gawsworth Old Rectory at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5528495

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)