The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, SHAWBURY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226142
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, SHAWBURY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226142
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, SHAWBURY 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:
- THE OLD RECTORY, SHAWBURY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shustoke
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 24280 90772
Details
SHUSTOKE SHAWBURY LANE SP2490 (West side) Church End 14/199 The Old Rectory 11/11/52 (Formerly listed as Old Rectory (now cottages)) GV II House. C14 with C17 additions. Cruck built, on sandstone plinth. Rendered walls, C20. Plain-tiled roof hipped at north-west end. Two internal stacks of red brick. Main north-south range with cross-passage away from the hearth and 2 later gabled wings at rear. One storey and attic. 2 modern gable dormers with wood casements. Ground floor has late C20 bow and canted bays on either side of doorway to former cross-passage. Small casement to north end. Modern doorway and door. To south-east end a single storey, C20 extension forms a porch. Interior: Two full cruck roof trusses of the original open-hall house are visible. Both have closed walls. The one at the north end was probably the gable end. The other forms the end wall of the open-hall. Together they are a complete bay of the original house. The purlins are the only members of the roof structure of the original building which provide evidence of the extent of the original house. They extend for at least a further bay which would have been the open-hall. The crucks rest on a sandstone plinth. They are joined by a yoke which is surmounted by a King-post and a ridge piece laid flat. One pair of blades has a rail part of which has been removed to make a doorway. The roof has principal rafters with paired and curved wind bracing. The braces are laid one over the other on the back of the principal rafters and secured by a peg. The purlins are laid over the back of the blade in a shallow trench. They are inclined. A lower spur is also housed over the blade and carries the end of the principal rafter on its upper edge. Apart from a chamfer none of the timbers is moulded. Despite restoration it seems likely that this end bay was floored when built. The King-post is longer than that at the Bothie, Botts Green, Over Whitacre (q.v.). However the yoke is probably not as long as the collar or tie-beam linking the 2 blades of the base cruck at Priory Farmhouse, Bixhill Lane, Shustoke (q.v.). The house was the birth place in 1605 of Sir William Dugdale, the antiquary. (J.T.Smith: Cruck Distributions: An Interpretation of Some Recent Maps (Vernacular Architecture, Vol.6, 1975))
Listing NGR: SP2428090772
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423267
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture in Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 6, (1975)
Other
Smith, JT, Cruck Distributions An Interpretation of Some Recent Maps,
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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