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Warton Old Rectory is a timber-framed building located in the parish of Warton in Lancashire. The structure dates from the medieval period and retains evidence of its original construction techniques and materials characteristic of medieval domestic architecture in the North West of England. As a rectory, it served as the residence of the parish priest and represents an important class of medieval institutional building. The building's survival provides valuable evidence of both the physical standards of medieval clerical housing and the constructional methods employed in timber-framed buildings of the period.
Warton Old Rectory is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007901. View the official record →
Warton Old Rectory is a timber-framed building located in the parish of Warton in Lancashire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007901.
Warton Old Rectory is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1007901.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Warton Crag small multivallate hillfort (0.8 km), Dog Holes Cave (1.7 km), Badger Hole, Warton Crag (1.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Warton Old Rectory's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Warton Old Rectory stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.