The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, UPTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057000
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, UPTON LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10588/26
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057000
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, UPTON LANE
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, UPTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Seavington St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 40678 15288
Details
SEAVINGTON ST MARY CP UPTON LANE (West side) ST41NW SEAVINGTON ABBOTS 2/75 The Old Rectory (formerly listed as the Rectory) 4.2.58
GV II
Detached house, formerly the Rectory. C17 origins, remodelled in C18. Ham stone ashlar and near-ashlar; hipped Welsh slate roof; rendered chimney sticks. Two storeys with attics, 5 x 5 bays. Plinth, eaves cornice with secret gutter; 12-pane sash windows in architraves, some with thick glazing bars; lower windows have hoods over, and the upper centre has an eared architrave and console bracket to cill; to lower centre bay a 6-panel door up 2 steps; with flanking Doric pilasters, full entablature and pediment hood. South elevation of 5 bays to match, but the central doorway has a moulded recess and flat hood on console brackets, above which is a semi-circular arched 24-pane sash window with 'Y' tracery to head, the architrave having imposts and keystone; roof has 4 C20 flat-roofed dormer windows. North side has two 5-light ovolo-mould mullioned windows with labels, the lower having one light blocked off, and also 2 small-pane casements: range of single-storey buildings attached to rear. Interior not seen, but reported is the demolition of a service wing in 1954, and also that all the original ceilings and fireplaces have been removed. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4067815288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264159
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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