THE OLD RECTORY

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108442
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY
Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108442
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD RECTORY

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY

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

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: South Pool
National Grid Reference:: SX 77490 40020

Details

SOUTH POOL SOUTH POOL VILLAGE SX 74 SE 6/148 The Old Rectory

G.V. II

House formerly rectory. Dates to 1828 according to documentary evidence. Stucco joint-lined stone walls. Shallow pitched hipped roof with overhanging eaves Brick axial stack and rendered brick stack at left-hand end. Plan: double depth plan, 2 rooms wide but not quite symmetrical plan. The 2 principal rooms are on the right-hand side at front and back. To the rear at the left-hand side was the kitchen. The front door opened into an entrance hall which apparently occupied the whole of that side of the house, although it has now been partitioned off. Behind it is a stairhall. Set back from the left-hand end of the house is a small service wing containing dairy, pantry, etc. Exterior: 2 storeys. Not quite symmetrical 2 window front with the 1st floor right-hand window blind. Original or slightly later C19 marginal-paned sash windows. very large on the ground floor, with short horns. Original 6-panelled doors to left of centre in roundheaded opening with semi-circular fanlight. Symmetrical 3 window garden front to right end of house with identical window. Small lower service wing set back from left-hand end with an 8-pane C19 sash window on the 1st floor and later C19 leanto in front. Interior: panelled shutters and 6-panelled doors. The 2 principal rooms have original marble chimneypieces with roundels in the corners. Open well staircase with cut string, carved tread ends, stick balusters and column newels.

Listing NGR: SX7739340046

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 100845
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.