OLD RECTORY

OLD RECTORY, CHURCH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1049464
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: OLD RECTORY
Statutory Address:: OLD RECTORY, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1049464
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: OLD RECTORY
Statutory Address 1:: OLD RECTORY, CHURCH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: OLD RECTORY, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: North Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Stiffkey
National Grid Reference:: TF 97389 43090

Details

STIFFKEY CHURCH STREET TF 9743 (north side)

14/120 Old Rectory

30.11.51 II*

Former Rectory of c1730, enlarged and re-faced C184O. Flint, gault brick dressed walls. Roof C20 smut pantiles. Double pile house, service wing. Five bays, 2 storeys. N front 2-1-2 bay facade, central 2 1/2 storey pedimented entrance bay. Sash window, glazing bars, under flat rubbed brick arches, brick quoins. Porch wood crudely rusticated square piers and pilasters. Entablature, pediment, leaded. Glazed door. End bays and central bay, brick quoins rusticated, moulded brick modillions to eaves cornice. Two brick stacks, moulded, to ridge. This pile refronts an earlier house of c1730. Flint, brick service range to left. N pediment altered. S front almost exactly similar to N, but 2 left bays have longer windows to ground floor, also doorcase not porch, pediment intact. Two stacks on ridge. Hipped roof to house, shallow pitch.

N pile 2 rooms of 2 bays each in William Kent style C1730. Right, 2 bays, moulded panelled dado, window embrasures. Framed door, broken pediment; 6 raised fielded panels, marble fireplace, compartment plaster ceiling, modillion cornice. White veined morble fireplace. Hall and staircase C1840, cast iron balusters, mahogany rail. S pile: Left 2 bay room C1840 Greek cornice and palm leaf central rosette.

Listing NGR: TF9738943090

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 223417
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.