Rectory Farmhouse
RECTORY FARMHOUSE, TOGHILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211817
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE, TOGHILL LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211817
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE, TOGHILL 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 FARMHOUSE, TOGHILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Doynton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 72207 73925
Details
ST 77 SW DOYNTON C.P. TOGHILL LANE (east side)
8/129 Rectory Farmhouse 17.9.52 - II
Farmhouse, now house. C17 with C20 alterations and additions. Coursed rubble, stone dressings and long and short quoins, double Roman tiled roof with raised coped verges and kneelers, brick gable stacks. U-plan, symmetrical front. 2½ storeys and 5 windows, 3 small gables with ball finials, ground floor has 4 stone cross windows with wide ovolo mullions and transoms and hood mould, central door in bolection-moulded surround with hood mould; 5 similar windows at first floor, 2nd from left and 2nd from right C20 replacements, each gable has similar 2-light casement with wide ovolo mullion and hood mould, C20 glazing; C20 single storey lean-to to left with window. Left return has rear wing with small gable with roll finial, 3-light casement as at front, C20 3-light window at ground floor. Right return has single storey addition with pitched roof, 2-light and single light window. Rear has central 2-light casement as at front lighting stair and similar window at first floor left with leaded lights, 3 small gables with roll finials, window blocked to left and open to right with mullion missing, hood mould; addition to left has plank and batten door in chamfered surround, C20 2-light casement; central 2-storey C20 flat-roofed extension, with one window at each level and attached porch. Rear wing to right has C20 door with timber lintel, and small gable partially concealed by C20 extension. Interior: former through passage now open to rear C20 porch, front right room has chamfered and scroll- stopped beams, now open to former dairy at rear; wide central hall, winder stair to rear right with-square newel with recessed panel, moulded handrail, turned balusters with knobs, closed string; front left room has heavy cambered and chamfered lintel to fireplace. At first floor landing, stair has larger moulded handrail with curved splat balusters, some replaced; beams as at ground floor, except first floor rear wing with chamfered and step-stopped beams. (Sources: Verey, D.: Buildings of England Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean. 1970).
Listing NGR: ST7220773925
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396350
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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