Description

NZ 3528 SEDGEFIELD RECTORY ROW
(South side, off)
Ceddesfeld Hall (previously
13/51 listed as "Rectory")
29/4/52

GV II

Former Rectory now Community Hall. 1793 for the Rev. George Barrington. Painted,
pebble-dashed masonry; Welsh slate roof with rendered chimneys. 2-storey, 5-bay
entrance front has low plinth; bays 2 and 4 projecting. Entrance front: central,
6-panel double door, with 3-pane side lights, in pilaster surround, has large
semicircular fanlight with radial glazing bars. Raised tablet above door has
inscription to Bishop Shute Barrington of Durham (died 1826). Left bay has
replaced double door and radial fanlight in recessed, round-arched wall panel;
flanking 3-pane side lights. Right bay has 9-pane sash with radial head in
identical wall panel. Other windows are 12-pane sashes with projecting sills;
sill to central window dated MDCCXCIII. 2 small shields bearing the Barrington
arms. Low-pitched roof has projecting eaves and is hipped over bays 2 and 4;
2 groups of truncated ridge chimneys. 2-storey,5-bay garden front has low
plinth. Projecting, pedimented 3-bay centre has elongated 15-pane sashes to
ground floor, 12-pane sashes above and oculus in tympanum. Flanking one-bay
wings have shallow segmental bow windows with pilasters and 12-pane sashes;
single 12-pane sashes above. Roof similar to entrance front. Pedimented right
return to entrance front has 12-pane sashes and oculus in tympanum. Modernised
interior has several 8-panel internal window shutters; 6-panel doors in moulded
surrounds; 3-flight, open-well, cut-string staircase with stick balusters
supporting a wreathed and ramped handrail; small square-headed fireplace in
entrance hall.

L-plan service wing, attached to left of entrance front, now 2 private houses
(see entries for Shute House and Barrington Lodge).

Listing NGR: NZ3566128741

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26453674

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback