The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, TOWER HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216208
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, TOWER HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216208
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, TOWER HILL
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, TOWER HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Netherbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 46971 99428
Details
SY 4699/4799 NETHERBURY TOWER HILL 4-12-1951 10/174 The Old Rectory (formerly listed as The Old Vicarage)
GV II
Former Rectory, now private house. C16 and C17 block, extensively altered and modernised. Late C17 porch, modernised. Early C18 south-west wing. Rubble-stone walls. Slate roof with stone gable- copings. Stacks, at left hand gable, right hand gables rebuilt in C20. Coupled front eaves stack, C19. Flat tablet below with raised label over, C20. 2 storeys. 5 windows, one 3-light stone mullion with 4-centred heads; one 4-light stone mullion with straight shanks and bowtells, both C16. Iron casements with lead lights. 3 tension bars. Remainder: cross-transomed stone-mullioned windows replace early C19 sashes. Labels over. One canted bay at left hand ground. Large 2-storey porch with pointed segmental arches on 3 sides. C20 pyramid-stopped jambs. Front door, round-headed, plank-and-muntin, C20. Victorian wing to north-west. 2 storeys, c.4 windows, now garage and stable, with cellars under. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 174(5).
Listing NGR: SY4697199428
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401540
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 174
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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