The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage
RECTORY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250781
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- RECTORY COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250781
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- RECTORY COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitestaunton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 28175 10471
Details
ST21SE WHITESTAUNTON CP WHITESTAUNTON VILLAGE
5/143 The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage
(formerly listed as Old Rectory)
and west boundary wall
4.2.58
GV II
Rectory, now divided into 2 dwellings, with west boundary wall. Late medieval, ceiled late C16, east end rebuilt c1835
is main dwelling, in remains of original dwelling walls raised, reroofed, and refenestrated as service wing, divided
into 2 dwellings mid C20 with north extension. Random rubble local stone previously rendered, Ham stone dressings,
double Roman tiled roofs, lowered independently roofed west end [Rectory Cottage), higher C19 range with cross wing and
decorated ridge tiles, coped verges, brick stack west gable end, roughcast to west of blocked through passage, paired
brick stacks off cross wing. L-plan: double ended open hall house, celled to 3-cell and cross passage, inner room
rebuilt as staircase hall with reception rooms in cross wing to east. South front: 2 storeys, 3:2 bays, left 2-light
casements below wooden lintels, right gabled 2-light stone mullioned Window, cross gable end beyond with similar
3-light mullioned and transomed window, ground floor left C20 windows flanking blocked doorway, to right of main
entrance 3-light mullioned and transomed wooden windows reaching to the ground, crenellated Ham stone porch with coat
of arms of the Elton family in the central merlon with date partly eroded,1837, depressed Tudor arch head opening with
decorated spandrels, coeval inner 9-pane glazed door with sidelights with rectangular light above. Right return, 3 bays
with gabled centre, 3-light mullioned and transomed windows first floor, ground floor one only end bay right. Rear
elevation (entrance front of Rectory Cottage) some C19 leaded iron casements surviving and Tudor-style studded plank
door. C19 boundary wall of random rubble chert stone abutting south-west corner of Rectory Cottage and continued south
for about 10m incorporating remains of C16 Tudor arch head doorway with incised spandrels, fly hoodmould and
crenellated top. Possibly the original entrance to the Rectory reset in wall when the house was enlarged. Interior not
seen; Rectory cottage said to contain in the hill a very fine Ham stone moulded depressed 4-centred arch fireplace, the
lintel supported on shouldered jambs, beams with steer chamfers and keeled stars. To right of through passage evidence
of dividing partition running east-west and unchamfered beam with bead moulding running north-south. The Rectory is
well documented in the Victoria County History and was enlarged in the 1830s by the incumbent, W T Elton, who was the
son and brother-in-law of successive lords of the manor. (VAG Report, Unpublished SRO, March 1970; VCH Vol IV,
1978).
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Listing NGR: ST2817510471
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433259
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in March, (1970)
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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