The Rectory
THE RECTORY, WATER END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164709
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE RECTORY, WATER END
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09372/24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164709
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RECTORY, WATER 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 RECTORY, WATER END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alwalton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 13374 96079
Details
ALWALTON WATER END TL 19 NW (West Side) 2/22 The Rectory GV II House, formerly the rectory. Dated gate pier '1848'. Ashlar and coursed limestone rubble with ashlar and freestone dressings. Low pitched hipped Welsh slated roofs. Two symmetrical ashlar stacks and rear stacks. Two storeys. Main north-south range with service wing to north-east and main entrance to south in angle. Garden facade of three bays with giant pilasters and double horizontal bands at cill and lintel heights. Deep moulded wooden eaves cornice and boarded eaves. Moulded stone architraves to three similar garden casements with margin lights and with louvred shutters, and three recessed first floor nine-paned hung sash windows with pilastered jambs. Half bay extension to right hand with moulded cornice to plain parapet, extension to left hand modern. Porch to south with round headed outer archway and triangular pediment with reeded console brackets. Inner glazed, panelled door. 'Specification for erecting house and offices as a rectory 1833',and notes of alterations made by rectors Wm Pain, Medforth and Milnes from 1905-1935' (Inskip Ladds Collection, Norris Museum, St Ives).
Listing NGR: TL1337496079
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54830
- 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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