Glebe House
GLEBE HOUSE, RECTORY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171201
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address:
- GLEBE HOUSE, RECTORY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171201
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLEBE HOUSE, 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:
- GLEBE HOUSE, RECTORY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stisted
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 79762 25446
Details
TL 72 NE STISTED RECTORY ROAD (west side)
1/278 Glebe House
- II
House. 1839. Plastered brick, roofed with slate. Rectangular plan with entrance elevation to SE, garden elevation to SW. 2 stacks in N wall, one stack near SW end of NW side. Service wing to NE. Late C19 square bay at NE end of NW wall, C20 conservatory at SW end. 2 storeys. SE elevation, 3-window range of original sashes of 12 lights. Central 6-panel door (top 2 glazed) in moulded plaster architrave with moulded shallow canopy on scrolled brackets. Moulded cornice, plain parapet rising to central stack (dummy or disused) with quadrant each side. In service wing, one sash of 6 + 8 lights on ground floor, one of 12 lights on first floor. Parapet gable to right return. SW elevation, 2 full- height splayed bays with sashes of 12 lights to the front, 12 lights with glazed margins in the splays. Central blocked window aperture with semi-circular head on ground floor, sash of 12 lights on first floor. Moulded cornice, plain parapet. Symmetrical elevation. Much crown glass in this and SE elevation. Original folding shutters in ground-floor windows of SW elevation. Moulded ceiling cornices. Original stair with wreathed handrail, turned newels and stick balusters. In the kitchen wall are 3 blocks inscribed respectively Henry Thornton Forster 18 October 1839, John Jebb Forster 18 October 1839, Charles Thornton Forster 18 October 1839. This house was built as a rectory when the tithes were commuted in 1839 (W. White, Directory of Essex, 1863, 315). The earlier rectory, still shown in the tithe map of that year, was approximately 70 metres to the N (Essex Record Office, D/CT 355).
Listing NGR: TL7976225446
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116297
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in Essex, (1863), 315
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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