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Latitude: 54.1698 / 54°10'11"N
Longitude: -1.2945 / 1°17'40"W
OS Eastings: 446156
OS Northings: 475117
OS Grid: SE461751
Mapcode National: GBR MND7.K0
Mapcode Global: WHD8X.2GV7
Plus Code: 9C6W5P94+W6
Entry Name: The Old Rectory
Listing Date: 1 May 1952
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1190794
English Heritage Legacy ID: 332897
ID on this website: 101190794
Location: Little Sessay, North Yorkshire, YO7
County: North Yorkshire
District: Hambleton
Civil Parish: Sessay
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Tagged with: Clergy house
SESSAY MAIN STREET
SE 47 NE
(east side, off)
4/39 The Old Rectory
1.5.52
GV II
Rectory, now house. C18 with later additions and alterations and reroofed after
a fire in the 1920s. Rendered; Welsh slate roof. 2-storey (formerly 3),
symmetrical 7-bay front with single-storey wing to left. Plinth. Central bay
recessed having entrance with 6-panel double door, top 4 panels glazed, in
bolection-moulded architrave under bracketed hood. Narrow sashes with glazing bars
and projecting sills. Hipped roof with broad stacks at either end of ridge and
another cross-ridge stack at left end. Lower wing on left has C20 French windows
to right of sash with glazing bars; roof hipped on left taller single-storey wing
behind. Rear: round-arched stair window with glazing bars, radial in head; some
sashes with glazing bars. Right return: 3 bays; French windows to ground floor,
sashes with glazing bars above; on right, raised verge with gable stack. Left
return, wing: narrower 18-pane sashes with glazing bars. Interior: panelled
doors; rear right room has stone fireplace with eared architrave, frieze and
cornice under mirror flanked by early C19 fitted cabinets; dog-leg, open-string
stair with stick balusters and spiral curtail to handrail. The 3rd storey was
destroyed by fire in the 1920s, but the ridge of the roof and the chimneys appear
to be the original height.
Listing NGR: SE4615675117
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