THE OLD RECTORY AND SWANWIC HOUSE THE OLD RECTORY UNDER KINGS ROAD

THE OLD RECTORY AND SWANWIC HOUSE, KINGS ROAD WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1119876
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY AND SWANWIC HOUSE THE OLD RECTORY UNDER KINGS ROAD
Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY AND SWANWIC HOUSE, KINGS ROAD WEST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1119876
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY AND SWANWIC HOUSE THE OLD RECTORY UNDER KINGS ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD RECTORY AND SWANWIC HOUSE, KINGS ROAD WEST
Statutory Address 2:: THE OLD RECTORY UNDER KINGS ROAD

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 AND SWANWIC HOUSE, KINGS ROAD WEST
Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY UNDER KINGS ROAD

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Swanage
National Grid Reference:: SZ 02756 78802

Details

KINGS ROAD WEST 1. 5190 (south side) The Old Rectory and Swanwic House SZ 0278 NE 5/124 26.6.52 (formerly listed as The Old Rectory under Kings Road) II GV

2. Now 2 houses. The oldest part dates from the mid C17, enlarged in C18 and early C19. Various later lean-to additions. Purbeck Stone walls and roofs. The original plan form is difficult to determine owing to successive enlargements and alterations. Two storeys and attics. Gabled roofs, some with half-hips. Some double-hung sash windows some casements. Entrance door to The Old Rectory has a carved stone head dated July 10, 1667, with initials WR for William Rose - Rector at the time - possibly the builder of the house. Next to this is a fragment of medieval window tracery. These features may have been re-set. Interior considerable altered. RCHM Monument 7.

Listing NGR: SZ0275678802

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Legacy System number:: 108250
Legacy System:: LBS

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Inventory of Dorset, (1970)

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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.