The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177062
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177062
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wyddial
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37270 31577
Details
TL 3731 WYDDIAL WYDDIAL (North side)
10/149 The Old Rectory -
GV II
Rectory, now a house. Before 1840, probably for Rev. Charles Maxwell rector 1836-89, rear extension late C19 but before 1895. White brick with frilly white bargeboards and steep red tile roofs banded with scalloped tiles. A symmetrical 2-storeys Gothick rectory facing E with regular rear extension. Front has twin bargeboarded gables with narrow recessed centre and projecting bargeboarded gabled single-storey porch. Square-headed chamfered windows with tall margin-light recessed wooden casements, transomed on Gd floor, with moulded stucco labels. Framed and battened front door under pointed fanlight with tracery, in open porch with chamfered Tudor arched entrance and small side windows. Matching bargeboarded gable on S side but plain gable and simple rectangular beaded casements on N side. S face of rear extension has a large projecting bay, square on Gd floor but changing to octagonal with pyramidial roof above. Tall chimneys with paired octagonal shafts generally.
Listing NGR: TL3727031577
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160370
- 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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