The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, VALLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263027
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, VALLEY ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-08-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/00215/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263027
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, VALLEY ROAD
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:
- THE OLD RECTORY, VALLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Blakenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 10523 48852
Details
LITTLE BLAKENHAM VALLEY ROAD TM 14 NW 7/64 The Old Rectory (Formerly listed as Rectory). 9.12.55 - II House, formerly rectory. Built in 3 main stages: C15, mid C17 and early C19. 2 storeys and attics. The earliest range to rear has a timber-framed core. C17 work in red brick, now painted along the south side wall. The entrance front to east was stuccoed in C19, with band at lst floor and moulded cornice at eaves; twin C17 Dutch gables. Slated roofs with internal chimneys of red brick. Small-pane early C19 sash windows with cambered heads; 2 windows have side-lights and hinged louvred shutters. Early C19 entrance doorway; slender sunk panelled pilasters, moulded and dentilled open pediment and segmental fanlight with radiating bars. C20 glazed door. To right of entrance is an early C19 extension one window wide, added when the front elevation was remodelled. A 3-bay C15 cross-wing is now at the rear. It has a crown-post roof; 2 plain octagonal crownposts have 2-way bracing. A partition wall has a blocked doorway with 4-centred arched head. The C17 range along the south side probably stands on the site of the C15 open hall, whose rafters it reuses in the present roof.
Listing NGR: TM1052348852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433494
- 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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