Rivenhall Old Rectory
RIVENHALL OLD RECTORY, RECTORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122557
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Rivenhall Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- RIVENHALL OLD RECTORY, RECTORY LANE
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- Date:
- 2002-03-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06550/07
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122557
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Rivenhall Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIVENHALL OLD RECTORY, RECTORY 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:
- RIVENHALL OLD RECTORY, RECTORY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rivenhall
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 82348 16571
Details
1. 1841 RECTORY LANE, RIVENHALL Rivenhall Old Rectory TL 81 NW 5/101
II
2. A C16-C17 timber framed house but considerably altered and added to in the C18. It is now mainly C18 but original wings remain at the north-west side, with timber-framing exposed (1 wing -is now weatherboarded). The north-east and south-east fronts are of red brick. 2 storeys and attics, with a aparapet and a raised brick band. The parapet is broken in front of the dormers. The north-east front is 2 window range (1 blocked) and the south-east front is 3:3 window range. A wing of 1 storey with parapet with sunk panels and raised brick bank extends to the south-west. The windows generally are C18, double-hung sashes with glazing bars (thin section), in plastered reveals. The doorway on the north east front has pilasters and a flat hood on cut brackets with a segmental headed fanlight above. Roof tiled, hipped with 1 flat headed dormer on the north-east front and 3 semi-circular headed dormers on the south-east front, The interior has good C18 features including a staircase with cut strings and turned balusters, panelling and fireplaces.
Listing NGR: TL8234816571
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 113582
- 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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