Description

THIRKLEBY HIGH AND LOW MILL LANE SE 47 NE WITH OSGODBY (east side) 4/62 Old Rectory GV II Rectory, now house. Plans dated 1866. By Charles Newstead for the Franklands. Orange-red brick in English garden wall bond with ashlar dressings; grey slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 irregular bays. Chamfered plinth and first floor sill band; wood- mullioned and transomed windows, chamfered stone sills and lintels, most ground- floor openings with 4-centred-arched brick relieving arches with herringbone brickwork to tympana; cogged eaves. Entrance front: semi-octagonal bay under steeply-pitched roof projects on right with tall cross windows to each of 3 front sides and 2-light windows above, that to centre taller, transomed and breaking eaves under gablet; base of wooden finial on roof. Between 2 central bays is studded board door in shouldered-arched surround with single-light window to right and paired lights to left; on first floor, 2-light window over door with cross-window under gablet to left and similar gablet to right over tall leaded stair window with transom and traceried 4-centred-arched head breaking eaves. Left bay, slightly recessed, has narrow window on right and to right of this rises a lateral stack, corbelled out at first floor level on left and tapering at top with tumbled-in brickwork and cogged band. A similar stack rises from eaves at junction of right- hand bays. Roof is hipped on left and has crested ridge tiles and finial at left end. Rear: off-centre projecting gabled bay has a 3-light window with 2 cross- windows above and tall window in returns. Right-hand bay, set back, has renewed 4-light window to ground floor and 3-light window breaking eaves above with lateral stack and blind wall to right. Left-hand bays, set further back, have 2 windows flanking external lateral stack and first floor window to its right breaking eaves. Right return: 2 bays, that on right projecting, gabled, and with pent-roofed 3-light bay window with 2 cross-windows above; left bay has steps up to French window with window above on right breaking eaves. Interior: 4-panel doors with moulded edges.

Listing NGR: SE4762279325

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