The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110179
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110179
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blandford St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 89137 05355
Details
BLANDFORD ST MARY ST 80 NE LOWER BLANDFORD ST MARY
5/9 The Old Rectory (formerly 14-7-55 listed as the Vicarage)
- II
Rectory, dated RW 17j2 on staircase, early C19 alterations and north western extension of 1870. Facade in header bond brickwork with tiled roof having slate margins and end brick stacks. Coved plaster cornice. 2 storeys with attics and basements. 5 bay 2:1:2. Flat gauged arches to windows with ] part keystones. Brick aprons. Upper floor has original 12-pane sashes with thick moulded glazing bars. Lower floor has replacement 12-pane sashes. Door approached up semi-circular flight of steps. Doorcase has moulded, lugged architrave and pilastered surround with open segmental hood borne on double-scroll consoles with acanthus enrichment above. 8 fielded-panel door. Early C19 canted bays to rear. C19 extension is in English-bond brickwork and has hipped, tiled roof. Of 4 irregular window ranges including a projecting bay right. Various sash and casement windows, some of the ground floor openings having relieving arches. Near central C20 part-glazed plank door. Internally the main house has an original oak staircase with ] balusters per head. These take the form of vases surmounted by Tuscan columns. The newels are larger Tuscan columns. The spandrels bear carved scrolls. Heavy moulded handrail. The wooden landing fascia bears arabesques and is dated. There are various moulded cornices and panelling and several early C19 fireplaces. The whole house is very similar to some of the larger town houses of Blandford Forum. (R.C.H.M. Dorset, vol. IV, p.42/], no.]. Newman. J, and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.101/2.)
Listing NGR: ST8913705355
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103291
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 42-43
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 101-102
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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