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10/38 The Rectory 20.12.60 II*
House. 1716, mid C19, and C20. Brick walls, tile and slate roofing. A Queen
Anne house, built at the time the church was rebuilt (at the expense of Thomas
'Diamond' Pitt), with alterations and additions of the mid- C19, and C20.
Symmetrical front (west) of 2 storeys and attic, 5 windows, with narrow windows
on each side of the central entrance. Steep hipped tile roof, with pilaster
coved and moulded eaves, 3 flat-roofed dormers with casements. Walls of
Flemish bond with blue headers, rubbed flat arches (to the ground-floor) with
thin stone keys, plinth, stone Gothic drip-mould as lst floor band. Sashes
in exposed frames. There is a 'Tudor' brick porch, with coping to parapet,
brick dentil cornice, 4-centred arch on impost band, plinth: at each side
there is an arched recess with a narrow window. At the north end there is a
massive tapered stack. The south elevation is 2-storeyed and was symmetrical
of 5 windows, with details similar to those at the front: the 2 western bays
were replaced (late C18) with a 2-storeyed ½-12-sided brick bay, having a
flat roof with a small coved eaves cornice, a central window above a doorway,
and 2 ground-floor windows: the details follow the front but the entrance has
double glazed doors with narrow side-panes. To the east side there is a
single-storeyed ½-octagonal projection, with 3 large windows, of the mid C19;
with a hipped slate roof behind to parapet. The north and east elevations are
much altered (mid C19) with a higher eaves (to 3 storeys) and a low-pitched
slate roof, irregular fenestration, the east having a 2 storeyed wing and the
north a garage block (continuous with the front elevation): brick walls in
Flemish bond, rubbed flat arches, stone cills, sashes in reveals, and a neat
porch, with brick flank walls and a low-pitched gable.
Listing NGR: SU3283743570
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