The Old Rectory
The Old Rectory, Upton Magna
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222780
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Rectory, Upton Magna
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- Date:
- 2003-04-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/08894/27
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222780
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Rectory, Upton Magna
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, Upton Magna
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Upton Magna
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 55416 12439
Details
SJ 51 SE
4/106
UPTON MAGNA,
The Old Rectory
02/07/71
II
Rectory, now house. Circa 1856, by G.E. Street. Red brick with half-hipped plain tile roofs. Irregular plan. One storey and attic and two storeys.
Chamfered offset, low clasping buttress to south-east corner. Five integral gable-end, integral lateral and ridge stacks; brick with raked bands and stone coving to caps. Mid C19 wooden mullioned and transomed windows.
South front: wing projecting to left with first floor cross-window, ground floor window to left with pointed relieving arch and herringbone brickwork in recessed tympanum, and boarded door to right with elaborate wrought-iron strap hinges, chamfered lintel, and bracketed gabled timber porch with pierced segmental-arched canopy; left-hand return front has semicircular staircase turret with lancet window; main range set back to right has first floor two- and three-light windows to left with hipped dormer over, and two pairs of ground floor French casements to left with pointed relieving arch and herringbone brickwork in recessed tympanum; low wall and roof-line on wall of house is evidence of probable former lean-to conservatory in angle to left.
East front: left-hand projecting wing has wall surface of receding planes; three-light window in each floor has pointed relieving arch with herringbone brickwork in tympana; small trefoil-headed light pushed up into tympanum of first floor window; right-hand gable end has projecting two storey square bay with three-light window, herringbone brick panels between floors and gable with planted timbers; small gable to left with two-light window and half-glazed garden door-beneath (top panels glazed) with chamfered reveals, four-part leaded overlight, and bracketed lean-to porch. Large hipped dormer to rear; one storey wing to north and two storey wing to west.
Interior not inspected but noted as having boarded internal shutters with strap hinges.
Listing NGR: SJ5541612439
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 418200
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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