Crosstree House the Old Rectory
CROSSTREE HOUSE, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060109
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Crosstree House the Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- CROSSTREE HOUSE, FRONT STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060109
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Crosstree House the Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROSSTREE HOUSE, FRONT STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD RECTORY, FRONT 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:
- CROSSTREE HOUSE, FRONT STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chedzoy
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 34023 37521
Details
CHEDZOY CP FRONT STREET (East side)
ST33NW
1/7 The Old Rectory and Crosstree
House
-
- II
(Marked on O.S. map as Rectory). Rectory, now divided into 2 dwellings. Circa 1830, probably by Richard Carver, the
Diocesan architect, on an earlier C18 core, some C20 refenestration. Rendered and scribed to resemble ashlar, angle
buttresses with set-offs, hipped and gabled slate roofs, some bitumen treated. Some polygonal stacks with moulded stone
caps, 3 grouped stacks set diagonally, some C20 stacks, 2 pedimented dormers with ornamental finials to south. L-plan.
Gothic. Main entrance front to south of The Old Rectory, 2 storeys and attic, irregular fenestration, 2-light
stone-mullioned windows with labels and a canted stone oriel with quatrefoils at base. Embattled single-storey entrance
porch, string with carved panels, 4-centred arch door opening in stone surround, traceried door. Large single-storey
canted stone bay to garden front. Other elevations in conforming style, some U.P.V.C. casements on roadside elevations.
Coeval interior stated to be of some quality.
Listing NGR: ST3402337521
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269529
- 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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