Description

BOLTON ABBEY B 6160
SE 05 SE (east side, off)

8/70 The old Rectory

10.9.54
II*
GV

House. C15 and late C17. Ashlar, coursed squared stone, graduated stone
slate roof. 2 storeys, 7 bays, with a 1-storey, 2-bay block at right angle
to main house connected by a wall. Main house: full-height gabled porch.
Raised quoins. Half-glazed door, rusticated surround and voussoirs,
semicircular dripmould. Above a 4-light double-chamfered mullioned window
with central major mullion and carved tablet over, below triangular headed
hoodmould. Bay 1 has two 4-pane sashes in moulded surrounds, bay 2 has an
adjoining pair of 4-pane sashes in similar surrounds with central mullion.
To right a dripmould over blocked doorway. Bay 3 has a 2-light chamfered
mullion and transom window. Bay 5 has a similar 4-light window with central
major mullion. Bays 6 and 7 have full-height 8-pane sashes in moulded
surrounds with central mullions. First floor: all bays have 4-light double-
chamfered mullion windows apart from that to left of porch which has
2-lights. Shaped kneelers, stone coping. Gable crosses to porch and right-
hand gable. Ridge stacks and one large external gable stack to left-hand
side. Rear: C15 six-light window, with round head and cusped lights. Block
to right of house: quoins, board door with four-centred arch lintel. To
right 2 large 36-pane sashes in plain stone surrounds. Right return:
2 offset buttresses. Left return: C15 mullioned window. History:
originally the Priory infirmary, then it became Boyle School as commemorated
on the plaque above the porch first-floor window.

Listing NGR: SE0738054144

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534806

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