Old Rectory
OLD RECTORY, CHEW STOKE VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129631
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RECTORY, CHEW STOKE VILLAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129631
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD RECTORY, CHEW STOKE VILLAGE
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:
- OLD RECTORY, CHEW STOKE VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chew Stoke
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 55885 61890
Details
ST 56 SE CHEW STOKE C.P. CHEW STOKE VILLAGE
3/67 Old Rectory 21.9.60 II
Marked on O.S. as Convalescent House. Rectory, then convalescent home now house in multiple occupation. Mid C19 with some later alterations. Snecked rock-faced limestone rubble with limestone and sandstone dressings, slate roof. L-plan; asymmetrical Gothic style. Front of 2 storeys and 4 bays, ground floor windows have ogee-headed lights, first floor pointed arched lights; from left, 4-light mullion and transom window with stopped hood mould, 3-light window above with continuous hood mould and relieving arch, quatrefoil in gable with raised coped verges and kneelers, chamfered and broached walls with diagonal buttress to left; 2nd bay canted, with 5-light mullion and transom window, lintel string course, similar smaller window at first floor with cill string, corbelled eaves to hipped roof over bay; 3rd bay has pointed arched door in moulded surround with hood mould and mask stops, relieving arch, 2 string courses above with 2 blank shields between, 2-light pointed arched window with cusped tracery, hood mould and relieving arch, tower above has trefoil with hood mould and relieving arch, corbelled eaves and hipped roof; 4th bay canted as in 2nd, 2 string courses continued across, chamfered and broached wall with diagonal buttress to right and trefoil in gable; limestone quoins and sandstone relieving arches. Right return has external stack to left, two 2-light pointed arched cusped windows with hood mould and mask stops, pointed arched door to right in moulded surround with similar hood mould, 2 mullion and transom windows at first floor and 2 C20 windows. Left return has corbelled external stack to right and gable stack to left with gargoyles; ground floor has 4-light and 3-light window with pointed arched heads, plain surround and relieving arch, 3-light ogee-headed window to right with centre light lowered for C20 door; first floor has 4 windows of varied sizes, gable end to left has trefoil, continuous hood mould from first floor right window and cill string; single storey service wing attached to left with coped wall. Rear has varied windows including large 3-light window with Perpendicular tracery lighting stair, 2-storey rear wing with pointed arched door, and 3-light window with segmental head, 2 C20 windows at first floor; rear in snecked sandstone rubble.
Listing NGR: ST5588561890
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32963
- 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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