Priest's House

PRIEST'S HOUSE, CHURCH CLOSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073687
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1955
List Entry Name:
Priest's House
Statutory Address:
PRIEST'S HOUSE, CHURCH CLOSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073687
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Priest's House
Statutory Address 1:
PRIEST'S HOUSE, CHURCH CLOSE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PRIEST'S HOUSE, CHURCH CLOSE

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

District:
Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Caldecott
National Grid Reference:
SP 86852 93606

Details

CALDECOTT CHURCH CLOSE SP 8693-8793 11/12 10.11.55 Priest's House (formerly listed as Building 80 yds S of Church). GV II

House. Early-mid C17 refurbished 1978-9. Banded limestone and ironstone rubble, slate roof, coped gables with moulded kneelers and roll-moulding at each apex. Central ashlar chimney with pair of square shafts and missing cornice. Baffle entry plan. 2 storeys and attic, 2 bays. Right bay has 3-light windows with ovolo-moulded limestone mullions, the lower window with casement cornice. Single lights with ovolo-moulded limestone surrounds and cornices to left bay and to off-centre staircase. Leaded glazing. Central C20 gabled stone porch. C20 attic windows in gables. Rear retains C17 windows with ovolo mullions to ground floor, 3-light to left, 4-light with king mullion to right, but has C20 wooden casements above. Good interior features, with stop-chamfered spine and tie-beams and stone fireplace with 4-centred arch in right bay. Large fireplace in left bay has wooden lintel shaped into 4-centred arch with bracket-like ends and moulded rectangular surround.

Listing NGR: SP8685293606

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
187545
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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