The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1211976
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN ROAD
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- Date:
- 2000-07-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/02193/31
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1211976
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1984
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 82381 24289
Details
SP 82 SW DUNTON MAIN ROAD (south side)
7/6 The Old Rectory (formerly listed as The Rectory)
19.8.59
- II
House. Early C18, altered late C18. N.W. front is of red and vitreous brick with moulded plinth, first floor band course and moulded stone eaves. S.E. front is of vitreous headers with flush red brick quoins, band course and window surrounds. Similar plinth and eaves. Old tile roof, stone coped gables, flanking brick chimneys. 2 storeys, attic and basement, 5 bays. Main storeys have 3-pane sash windows in architrave frames with gauged brick heads. 3 dormer windows with flat roofs, moulded cornices and paired wooden casements, the central N.W. dormer with small barred sash. Basement has 2 windows to N.W., that to right blocked. Centre of N.W. front has longer sash to first floor with intersecting, glazing bars, and steps to half-glazed door in Ware doorcase. Doorcase has blind radiating fanlight in open dentilled pediment on fluted Doric pilasters with triglyph entablature blocks. Centre of S.E. side has half-glazed door with rectangular fanlight. Canted oriel of wooden boards above with moulded cornice top and round headed sash windows with Y glazing bars and architrave frames. House has small attached flanking service blocks, each of one storey and attic with moulded brick eaves and old tile roofs; paired barred wooden casements and board doors to N.W., that to right on S.E. side having Serlian stone window with bonded central arch and moulded cornices over flanking lights. Interior has central hall with late C18 staircase.
Listing NGR: SP8238124289
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396500
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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