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Golden Rectory

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Golden Rectory
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Detached three-bay two-storey former rectory with basement, built 1819, now in use as house. Two-bay south end elevation, four-bay two-storey rear elevation over half-basement and having two-bay wide two-storey projection to north end. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls having limestone plinth course. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor, tripartite and recessed into round-headed niches to south elevation, round-headed to north elevation and being six-over-three pane to first floor except for north elevation which are three-over-six pane, all windows having limestone sills. Replacement uPVC to basement at rear. Entrance set within recessed round-headed opening comprising carved limestone surround with panelled pilasters having heavy fluted consoles, with spoked fanlight over entablature and having square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and cut limestone steps with cast-iron railings. Ashlar limestone piers leading to courtyard. Seven-bay two-storey outbuilding with central projecting pedimented entrance bay flanked by three-bay faces with centrally-placed single window to first floor, having hipped slate roof, roughcast rendered walls, with cut limestone surround to pediment, limestone sills to openings and segmental-arched integral carriage entrance having cut limestone voussoirs. Ashlar limestone piers to road entrance with carved caps and double-leaf cast-iron gates. Coursed rubble limestone boundary walls.

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