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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- 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
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:
- 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.
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