THE OLD RECTORY, GARDEN WALL AND ARCHWAY

THE OLD RECTORY, GARDEN WALL AND ARCHWAY, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108620
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY, GARDEN WALL AND ARCHWAY
Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY, GARDEN WALL AND ARCHWAY, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2003-09-20
Reference:: IOE01/11376/06
Rights:: © Mr JE Leeson. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108620
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY, GARDEN WALL AND ARCHWAY
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD RECTORY, GARDEN WALL AND ARCHWAY, HIGH STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY, GARDEN WALL AND ARCHWAY, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stalbridge
National Grid Reference:: ST 73505 18019

Details

ST 7318 STALBRIDGE HIGH STREET (EAST SIDE)

6/29 The Old Rectory garden wall and archway

II

House, dated 1699. Squared, coursed rubble walls with ashlar quoins and slate roof. Originally symmetrical double-pile plan with 2 parallel roof ranges. 2 storeys and attic with 5 bay main range. C19 sash windows with no glazing bars. Central door with C19 porch. Heavy cornice with modillions. Stone end stacks. Plat band between ground and first floor, 2 bay service wing and later additions to the left. Internally the staircase is an important feature (RCHM). Garden wall forms arch over front gate and bears a flat hood with dentils on scrolled brackets (possibly originally over front door). 'RCHM, Dorset, Vol III', HMSO, 1970, p250, no. 5. Newman J and Pevsner N "The Buildings of England: Dorset", Penguin, 1972, p396.

Listing NGR: ST7350518019

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 102343
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 250
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 396

Legal

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