The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125921
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH END
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125921
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH END
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, CHURCH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Parson Drove
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 39030 09017
Details
TF 30 NE PARSON DROVE CHURCH END 9/60 (South Side)
The Old Rectory GV II
Former rectory, c.1760, probably for Rev John Dickinson. Gault brick front wall, with local brick to side and rear walls and Ketton limestone dressings to quoins, door and window surrounds. Hipped, slate roof, pedimented to front with bulls eye window to tympanum. End stacks. Plan of two rooms flanking hall. Two storeys and attic. Range of three hung sashes with glazing bars, and two similar but larger windows at ground floor. Central pedimented doorway with moulded architrave and pulvinated frieze. Garden doorway at rear has a rusticated surround, raised key block and moulded cornice. Adjoining to the east is a lower kitchen range, much altered. Interior. Fine 1760 interior to one ground floor room. Cornice with cyma, egg and dart and dentil mouldings. Richly carved surround to one window with fret pattern between console brackets carved with acanthus and drops of husk ornament. Shouldered fireplace surround of pine with some marble and above is a shouldered and ramped overmantel with swan's neck pediment with shell motif. The staircase is also 1760 and of four flights, closed-string with turned balusters, moulded rail and square newels. Pevsner (Buildings of England), p.450. W. Watson, History of Wisbech, 1827.
Listing NGR: TF3903009017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48135
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Watson, W, An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech, (1827)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 450
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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