The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, RECTORY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143881
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, RECTORY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143881
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, RECTORY ROAD
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, RECTORY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Buryan, Lamorna and Paul
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 41170 25533
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/06/2011
SW 42 NW
5/120
ST BURYAN
RECTORY ROAD, St Buryan
The Old Rectory
(Formerly listed as Lefra Farmhouse)
GV II
Former rectory, now a farmhouse. Circa late C19. Granite and elvan rubble with
granite dressings. Dry Delabole slate hipped roofs. Large stone axial and lateral
stacks. C20 chimney over rear right-hand gable end. Fish-scale slate bargeboards to
3 half-hipped ends.
Plan: Large irregular 3 rooms deep plan with 2-storey entrance porch and stair hall
projection to the middle of the west entrance front. Study, left of stair hall and
parlour on the right with dining room behind. The 2 principal reception rooms and
the rear right-hand room have south-facing windows. Behind the study are pantries and
ranged along the rear are the service rooms: a small parlour on the left, a servants'
stair, probably a scullery and a kitchen. Cellar under part of house.
Exterior 2 storeys. Unaltered elevations. Original door. Simple Gothic style and
windows in orginal openings. Dressed granite plinth, deliberately irregular granite
jambstones; some openings spanned by shouldered flat arches with toggled lintels to
the wider openings, some relieving arches, transomed casement windows. The
asymmetrial l:l:l-bay west entrance front has projecting central 2-storey entrance
porch, 3 -light windows to bay left of porch and blind stone wall to right of porch.
Porch has pointed-arched doorway with hoodmould, on the right; weathered buttress at
far right; small window left of doorway; tall stair window over; small window over
doorway and fish-scale slates to the half-hipped end of the roof. The asymmetrical
l:l:l-bay south garden front has ground floor canted bay windows to the central and
left-hand bays and a half-hipped roof with fish-scale tiles over the central bay. 3-
light windows.
Interior not inspected but said to have most of its original features including the
original stair and plaster ceiling cornices in the parlour and dining room.
Listing NGR: SW4117025533
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 69674
- 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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