Rectory
RECTORY, RECTORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1209473
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- RECTORY, RECTORY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1209473
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- RECTORY, RECTORY LANE
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:
- RECTORY, RECTORY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wyre Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stourport-on-Severn
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 80244 71009
Details
589-1/7/91 RECTORY LANE
08-MAY-00 ARELEY KINGS
Rectory
GV II*
Rectory. Circa early C18 remodelling of a C17 house. Brick with plain tiled roof. Entrance front faces south, 3-storeyed, 3 gabled bays of unequal size with central 6-panelled door beneath wood canopied porch flanked by flush framed 12-pane sash windows with segmentally arched brick heads. Similar windows in the outer bays, and aligning first floor windows, one blind. Attic storey windows beneath the gables, the outer ones blind, and a 6-pane sash centrally. Parapet eaves run between the gables, and string courses to each floor. Bluer brick in right hand bay,suggesting a slightly different phase of construction. Large projecting stack to right, axial stack to left. Churchyard elevation of 4 bays with outer blind windows and doorway in pedimented case with panelled architrave and rebates, and flat entablature. Single 12-paned sash window to right of doorway, and 4 similar windows aligned above, with flat arched gauged brick heads. 2 dormers to attic. String courses above windows, blue brick quoins and dentilled eaves, coped gables. Northern elevation has wide canted bay added c1820, with stone quoins and plinth, and sash windows with gauged brick heads. Service wing beyond, also early C19.
INTERIOR is unusually intact and complete with many good C18 features, including a fine early C18 open-well staircase with turned balusters and moulded randrails ramped up to column newels, and panelled dado. Panelled rooms with pilastered overmantels, moulded cornices; panelled doors, cupboard doors; C18 chimneypieces, and timber screen in attic with Chinoiserie overlight.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.71.
Listing NGR: SO8024471009
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393381
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 71
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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