The Rectory
THE RECTORY, HIGHER TOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106393
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE RECTORY, HIGHER TOWN
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- Date:
- 2003-08-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/11048/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106393
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RECTORY, HIGHER TOWN
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 RECTORY, HIGHER TOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sampford Peverell
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 02924 14218
Details
SAMPFORD PEVERELL HIGHER TOWN (south side) ST 01 SW Sampford Peverell 8/148 The Rectory - GV II Former rectory. 1836, built at the expense of the Grand Western Canal Company in compensation for cutting through the grounds and demolishing the south wing of the Old Rectory (q.v.). The architect was R Cornish. Plastered stone rubble; stone rubble stacks with brick chimneyshafts; red tile roof, possibly slate originally. Plan: Double depth house facing north-west. There are 2 front and 2 back rooms. The front 2 are separated by the entrance hall and the right (north-east) 2 rooms are separated by the staircase. The principal rooms are those on the garden (south-west) front. The rooms are heated by an irregular series of axial and lateral stacks. House is 2 storeys. Tudor Gothic style. Exterior: the entrance (north-west) front has a symmetrical 3-window front arranged around the central doorway which is behind a flat roofed porch with an outer Tudor arch containing a plank door with fanlight. Porch has moulded Beerstone parapet with a shield over the outer arch. There are flanking French windows in the same style as the first floor timber mullion-and-transom windows. They have glazing bars which are articulated as Tudor arch heads to each light. Also they have Beerstone hoodmoulds. The roof is hipped each end. The garden (south-east) side has a symmetrical 3-window front of similar windows. Here the outer bays break forward a short distance. Interior: not inspected although it is thought to contain original joinery and other detail. Source: Church Guide and Devon C19 Church Project.
Listing NGR: ST0292414218
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95997
- 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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