The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, NORTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032399
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, NORTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032399
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, NORTON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, NORTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tostock
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 95195 63872
Details
TL 96 SE TOSTOCK NORTON ROAD
5/171 The Old Rectory 15.11.54
-- II
Former rectory; c.1800 with extensions to right and rear of early.C19. Gault brick. Hipped roof of graded Welsh slates: internal chimneys of gault brick. 2 storeys. 5 windows. Small-pane sashes with flat arches of gauged brick. At the centre bays, 4 Ionic pilasters rise through 2 storeys to support a shallow pediment. The pilaster capitals are in buff terracotta or limestone and the pediment has plain moulded woodwork. Entrance door with 8 sunk panels: above is a shallow arch in 2 orders of gauged brick, and a small semicircular fanlight has radiating bars. Interior: the front range has restrained plasterwork and joinery of c.1800: Flaxman ovals, and panels over doors. Staircase within inner hall has wrought iron balustrade. Believed to have fluted Ionic columns in one room and an Adaartype plaster ceiling in a bedroom. Early C19 addition to right of 1 + 1 windows and another, larger, to rear. To right and left are semi-elliptical screen walls about 2.5m high of gault brick with a band at mid-height: at the centre is an archway with wrought iron fencing within the lower part.
Listing NGR: TL9519563872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281274
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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