The Rectory

THE RECTORY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1228705
Date first listed:
20-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:
The Rectory
Statutory Address:
THE RECTORY
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1228705
Date first listed:
20-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:
The Rectory
Statutory Address 1:
THE RECTORY

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
THE RECTORY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hampshire
District:
Test Valley (District Authority)
Parish:
Abbotts Ann
National Grid Reference:
SU 33203 43609

Details

3343 ABBOTTS ANN ABBOTTS ANN 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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Legacy System number:
403361
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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