Description

SE 80 NW KEADBY WITH ALTHORPE MAIN STREET
(west side)
Althorpe
8/130 The Old Rectory

- II

Rectory, now house. 1840 by Samuel Marshall of Hull, later alterations to
roof. Grey brick in Flemish bond, stuccoed to basement. Welsh slate roof.
Square on plan, double depth, with 2-room, central entrance-hall east front,
and 2-room principal south garden front. 2 storeys, 4 bays to east and
south fronts. Stuccoed basement forms deep plinth with moulded cap. East
front: entrance to second bay; single tripartite basement sash to right of
entrance with glazing bars beneath cambered arch; flight of 6 stone steps
with moulded nosings and curtail steps to segmental-arched entrance with 4-
panelled door flanked by 3-pane sidelights over panels, beneath moulded
lintel and 6-pane overlight in panelled soffit and reveal. 12-pane sash to
right, narrower similar sash to fourth bay; blind recessed window panel to
left. 3-course brick first-floor band. First floor: pair of unequal 9-pane
sashes to second and third bays, with blind panels to each side. Deep
eaves. Hipped roof. Pair of corniced roof stacks. Left return forms
garden front: unequal 15-pane ground-floor sashes with sills at plinth
level, first-floor band, 9-pane first-floor sashes similar to east front,
hipped roof. Pair of side wall stacks. All windows and blind panels with
projecting sills and cambered rubbed-brick arches. Rear (north side), 3
storeys with basement, has pair of segmental-arched openings to basement,
one blocked, and sashes with glazing bars beneath cambered arches.
Interior. Original details include: main entrance vestibule with half-
glazed door with margin lights flanked by sidelights above panels; open-well
staircase with wreathed handrail, turned balusters and profiled cheek-
pieces; moulded plaster cornices to halls and main rooms, moulded ceiling
rose to lower hall; marble chimney-piece to south-west dining room
(originally drawing room) with decorated pilasters and foliate capitals.
The roof, now with a flat central section, was originally double span with a
central lantern. Architect's drawings in the Lincolnshire Record Office.

Listing NGR: SE8333509548

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26364401

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