Description

Kirby Misperton Flamingo Land
SE 77 NE
7/15 Old Rectory & Railings
attached to doorstep.

GV II

The following shall be added to the description:-
"Interior contains a fine ashlar cantilevered staircase with iron baluster and
mahogany hand rail. Some marble fireplaces survive, as do all the shutters and
most doors.

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NORTH YORKSHIRE
RYEDALE
5340
KIRBY MISPERTON FLAMINGO LAND
SE 77 NE
7/15 Old Rectory and railings
attached to doorstep

GV II

Rectory, now zoo office. c1840. By Rev the Hon Augustus Duncombe.
Bordered herringbone-tooled sandstone; plinth; slate roof. 2-storey, 3-
window front. Entrance in left return. 3-window semicircular bay with tall
12-pane sashes between Tuscan columns at right. 4-pane sash at left. 12-
pane sashes on first floor. Bay window cornice continues as moulded first-
floor band beneath first-floor sill band. Overhanging eaves. Ridge stacks
to hipped roof. Left return: 2-storey, 3-window front, with 1-storey
quadrant screen wall at left. C20 door approached by flight of steps with
railings, flanked by 12-pane sashes: 12-pane sashes on first floor. Screen
wall has plain door with divided overlight. Moulded eaves cornice to wall
continues as moulded first-floor band across main front. Right return: 2-
storey, 5-window front. 12-pane sashes to both floors, those on ground
floor over recessed panels. Moulded first-floor band and sill band. Rear:
ground floor masked by service range. Radial-glazed staircase window in
round-arched recess at centre of first floor; tripartite sash at left and
12-pane sash at right. Moulded first-floor band and sill band. Doorstep
railings have stick balusters and flat handrail swept on turned standards at
the bottom.

Listing NGR: SE7784679561

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26461391

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