The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage
RECTORY COTTAGE, RECTORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241337
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- RECTORY COTTAGE, RECTORY LANE
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- Date:
- 2004-07-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/12858/17
- Rights:
- © Mr John Chester. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241337
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- RECTORY COTTAGE, RECTORY LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD RECTORY, RECTORY 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:
- RECTORY COTTAGE, RECTORY LANE
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, RECTORY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Norton sub Hamdon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4724115900
Details
ST4715 NORTON SUB HAMDON CP RECTORY LANE (East side)
9/232 The Old Rectory and Rectory
Cottage
19.4.61
GV II
Detached house, formerly rectory. C18 with C19 additions. Ham stone ashlar; hipped plain clay tiled roofs with stone
slate base courses, part with Mansard roof; stone slab and brick chimney stacks. 'L'-plan; two storeys with attics;
west elevation 1+3+2 bays. Plinth, upper cill band, eaves course, rusticated quoins; sash windows in architraves with
keystones, to 3 bay section 6-pane above, and 12-pane lower bays 1 and 2; to the north bay, which has a swept coping to
parapet hiding a lean-to, a 12-pane window at mezzanine level: to the south-West projecting wing of 2 bays are 9-pane
sashes above and 6-pane sashes in hipped-roofed attic dormers, and below a C19 4-light mullioned and transomed square
bay window with flat roof behind parapet: across the angle formed by the south-west projection an angled flat-roofed
porch with 6-panel door having plain architrave, with semi-circular arched sidelights, and cornice and low plain
parapet masking flat roof: blind windows in return of south-west wing; further single- storey extension to north with
3-light chamfer-mullioned window. Several extensions on east side, of various Clq dates. Interior features a mid C18
staircase, several C18 doors and doorcases and one C18 panelled room, also a number of Regency and later features.
Listing NGR: ST4724115900
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440352
- 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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