THE OLD RECTORY AND RECTORY COTTAGE

RECTORY COTTAGE

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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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: RECTORY COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY

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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

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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). iqjll), r

Listing NGR: ST2817510471

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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.