The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, PARK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113878
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, PARK LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-04-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/02948/26
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113878
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, PARK 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, PARK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blunham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 15309 51066
Details
TL 1551 BLUNHAM PARK LANE
7/13 The Old Rectory(formerly listed 11.8.72 as Blunham Rectory)
GV II
House, former rectory. 1873-4 by John Usher (1822-1904) for Rev Thomas Marlborough Berry. Yellow brick with stone dressings. Half-flipped clay tile roofs. Double pile plan, with a gable to each elevation. 2 storeys and attics. High Victorian Gothic style. Strong vertical emphasis offset by horizontal bands of dark ochre brick. Variety of windows, mostly sashes with 2-centred arched heads, many paired. Moulded brick eaves cornice. Front elevation: tiled gabled open porch with finial and decorative bargeboards. 2- centred arched doorway with part glazed 6 panel door. One hipped dormer, projecting forward on corbels, with paired sashes. Chimney stack to RH gable has stone shield with 3 coronets. S elevation : similar windows and hipped dormers. Rectangular projecting bay with pierced embattled parapet. Recessed central bay had 2-centred head with alternating stone and brick voussoirs and moulded dripstone. Contains paired lancet windows rising from ground to first floor, and trefoil window between first floor and attic, all lighting staircase. Variety of multiple chimney stacks.
Listing NGR: TL1530951066
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 37939
- 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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