THE OLD RECTORY AND ATTACHED REAR WALL

THE OLD RECTORY AND ATTACHED REAR WALL, LOWER CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206378
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY AND ATTACHED REAR WALL
Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY AND ATTACHED REAR WALL, LOWER CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206378
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY AND ATTACHED REAR WALL
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD RECTORY AND ATTACHED REAR WALL, LOWER CHURCH LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY AND ATTACHED REAR WALL, LOWER CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 58534 73266

Details

BRISTOL

ST5873SE LOWER CHURCH LANE 901-1/11/134 (North West side) 08/01/59 The Old Rectory and attached rear wall (Formerly Listed as: LOWER CHURCH LANE The Old Rectory)

II

House. c1470, partially refronted c1770; contained late C16 panelling. Render and brick with limestone dressings, rubble plinth, brick gable stacks and pantile hipped roof. Double-depth plan including right-hand rear wings. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. In 2 sections, 2:3 windows stepped up to the left-hand brickwork, render to the right, with a band above the plinth, a ground-floor drip to the right, differently moulded cornices, stepped up, and a continuous coped parapet. c1770 right-hand section has raised, coved surrounds and ogee heads, a left-hand doorway with interlacing overlight and 6-panel door with the upper 4 raised, and 6/6-pane sashes, with interlacing heads, and 3 sunken panels to the parapet. C19 left-hand section has keyed architraves to horned 6/6-pane ground-floor sashes, and 4/8-pane first-floor sashes. The drip and cornice extend into the right-hand return as far as the external gable stack, windows as the front to each side, no right-hand ground-floor window, with a rear single-storey block. A continuous roof with 2 hipped dormers to the rear and 3 hips to the front. INTERIOR not accessible, but reported as having a left-hand lateral stair flight with uncut string, column-on-vase balusters and a ramped rail. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wall to NE corner. HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly the rectory to St Michael's Church (qv), c1470, which was largely rebuilt 1775 by Thomas Paty, who may have introduced the ogee fenestration to the rectory. Fine late C16 panelling was removed to the Red Lodge (qv), and is now in the ground floor Oak Room there. A house on the site is marked on Millerd's Map of Bristol, 1673. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 78; Millerd's Map of Bristol: 1673-).

Listing NGR: ST5853473266

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Legacy System number:: 379956
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 78

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.