The Old Rectory and Attached Front Garden Walls, Gate Piers and Datestone
THE OLD RECTORY AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, GATE PIERS AND DATESTONE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211866
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Attached Front Garden Walls, Gate Piers and Datestone
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, GATE PIERS AND DATESTONE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00013/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211866
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Attached Front Garden Walls, Gate Piers and Datestone
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, GATE PIERS AND DATESTONE
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 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, GATE PIERS AND DATESTONE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Perrott
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 47330 06787
Details
SOUTH PERROTT SOUTH PERROTT VILLAGE ST 4706 2/256 The Old Rectory and attached front garden walls, gate-piers and datestone GV II
Former Rectory, now private-house. Early C19, with later Victorian additions on the west. South elevation: stone walls, stuccoed. Slate roof, parallel ridges, and with stone gable-copings. Early C20 brick stacks. Iron guttering to front of house with 12 ornamental iron brackets. 2 storeys and attics. 3 windows, sashes with glazing-bars, flush wooden frames and cills. Former front door, at centre, wood with 2 flush panels, and 9 glass lights over. Verandah with 8 iron supports, with cross-saltires and circles. Pentice glass roof. Rear service-wing and former apple-store, mid C19. 2 storeys and attics. East elevation has ground floor sash with 2-light casements over. Stone arch voussoirs. Mid C19 additions on west, comprise a dining room (penticed) and porch. Attached front-garden wall along road, c70 yards long. Stone plinth and brick walls above in Flemish bond. Early C19. Reset datestone from former house in return wall: badge and initials TH 1684, set in column framing with round-arch over. Rosettes each side. Square stone gate-piers at west end of wall, with shallow pyramidal capstones. Source: RCHM Dorset I, p177(4).
Listing NGR: ST4733106790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396378
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 177
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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