The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, SOWTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097584
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, SOWTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097584
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, SOWTON 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, SOWTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sowton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 97629 92587
Details
SOWTON SOWTON LANE (south side) SX 99 SE 1/61 The Old Rectory (formerly listed - as the Rectory House) 11.11.52 - II
Substantial detached house, formerly Sowton Rectory. Built 1722 (dated rainwater heads), possibly incorporating remains of an earlier house. Brick, in Flemish bond, with burnt headers. Slate and leaded roof, concealed by parapet. Basically a single-depth house, with a rear corridor and external stair turret built to the rear of the (now internal) cob wall that presumably is a survival from the earlier house. There was probably a wing to the rear of the left-hand room, which now connects to the service rooms, which are arranged around a small rear courtyard. The present main entrance is to the right-hand end, giving into the corridor; there is evidence of there having been a central front entrance (now gone) and perhaps the present aedicule was removed from here. Two axial stacks. The left-hand stack is unusual in that although it heats the 2 left-hand rooms, there is space between the backs of the fireplaces which is now occupied by the kitchen; the flues meet above this, forming arches in the first floor rooms. 2 storeys, with an attic, formerly containing the servants' quarters. Front: symmetrical 5-window range; all windows with 12-pane hornless sashes, and depressed window arches. Parapet conceals 3 gabled half-dormers. Left-hand elevation : first floor with a tripartite 4:12:4 pane sash window to principal bedroom, and a 12 pane hornless sash window to the left of this; ground floor : Regency veranda, with a bowed 4-light window, 4 panes per light, with external shutters. French windows to the left of this. Right-hand end : three 12-pane hornless sash windows, 2 to the first floor, 1 to ground floor to the left of the entrance, an aedicule with 2 Tuscan half columns, open pediment, panelled reveals, soffit and door with semi-circular fanlight. Service buildings to rear, all intact, including a kitchen lit from the roof. Interior with internal shutters and other C18 and C19 joinery.
Listing NGR: SX9762992587
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86197
- 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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