The Old Rectory

THE OLD RECTORY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1118496
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1955
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:
1118496
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Oct-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.

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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.

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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.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Tarrant Hinton
National Grid Reference:
ST 93623 11026

Details

TARRANT HINTON ST 93 11 TARRANT HINTON VILLAGE

10/60 The Old Rectory 14.7.55 (formerly listed as GV The Rectory) II Rectory, now private house, c.1850 by Benjamin Ferrey. Flemish bond brickwork with tiled roof having end stone copings and brick kneelers. 2-parallel ranges. End brick stacks with paired flues paired diamond-wise. In the Tudor style. 2 storeys and attics, 3 bay. Ground floor has 4-light stone mullioned and transomed windows with moulded labels continued as string course. First floor has 2 3-light stone mullioned and transomed windows flanking a central similar single light window; all have returned, moulded labels. Attic has 2 gabled dormers with 2-light stone mullioned windows. Casements have octagonal pattern glazing bars. Main doorway in north-east wing has moulded 4-centred head.

Internal features (RCHM): stone fireplace surrounds with moulded 4-centred heads (RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p.99, no.4 Newman,J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.418.)

Listing NGR: ST9362311026

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
103688
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 99
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 418

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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