NHER 46139 (Building record) - Silver Dale, Thompson, formerly Merton Rectory

August 1983. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description Excerpt:
"Silver Dale, Thompson.
Rectory, now private house. 1851. Brick with black pantiled roofs. Double pile plan. Two storeys in five bays, centre broken forward containing round arched doorway with fanlight above glazed door. Four sashes ground, five to first floor under gauged skewback arches."
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Information from (S1).
Amended E. McDonald (HES), 8 November 2019.

Although this building has always been in the parish of Thompson it was the rectory of Merton. Here lived Rev G Crabbe, a pioneer archaeologist and historian, and it was on a visit to him that Edward Fitzgerald, translator of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, died. (S2) in file jumbles this story but does note that the doors from Thompson Hall NHER 18086 are reused here.
E. Rose (NLA), 30 May 2007.