THE RECTORY

THE RECTORY, CHURCH ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263096
Date first listed:: 23-May-1967
List Entry Name:: THE RECTORY
Statutory Address:: THE RECTORY, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263096
Date first listed:: 23-May-1967
List Entry Name:: THE RECTORY
Statutory Address 1:: THE RECTORY, CHURCH ROAD

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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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:: THE RECTORY, CHURCH ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Otham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 78913 53781

Details

CHURCH ROAD TQ 75 SE OTHAM (West Side) 3/221 The Rectory 23.5.67 II

Rectory, now house. C15, with C16, C17 and C18 alterations. Timber framed, rendered, with plain tile roof. Wealden, with 2 unequal-length hall bays and storeyed end bays. Internal jetty, possibly a blocked undershot cross- passage, to left end of longer right end bay. Probably converted to lobby entry plan in C17. C17 rear return wing to left of 2 timber-framed bays, that adjoining main range broader, (spanning 2 bays of main range), the other dated 1664. C18 or earlier single-bay rear return wing to right. 2 storeys and attic, on rendered plinth. Right and left end bays jettied to front. Inserted jetty to hall with higher bressumer. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Steeply-pitched hipped roof with gablets. Slender projecting gable-end stacks, that to left C18. Rendered multiple brick ridge stack to shorter left hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 6 sashes in open boxes; two 12-pane to left end bay, one 8-pane under stack, two 12-pane to right hall bay and one 12-pane to right end bay. Similar fenestration to ground floor. Panelled door under stack, with Doric pilasters, pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice. Rendered rear return wing to left; roof to first bay hipped to rear, narrower second bay gabled, with lower ridge. Lean-to, also in 2 sections, to long right side of wing. Rear lean-to to right hall bay. Single-storey outshot with stack, to gable end of left wing. Interior: framing exposed in some places. Central octagonal crown-post with square moulded capital and cushion base, on heavily-cambered hollow- chamfered tie-beam morticed for large arch-braces meeting towards centre. Plain end-of-hall crown-posts. Rebated crown-post on cambered chamfered axial tie-beam with solid-spandrel arch-braces, to right end bay. Bases of 2 shaped brackets, probably for pre-1664 oriel window, to rear wall of left end bay of main range. Chamfered C17 brick fireplace to first floor right end room. Chamfered cross-beam to rear bay of left wing, carved with legend: "This house was built by John Davis Rector of Otham 1664 A.D.". C18 staircase with moulded balusters and shaped cheeks to right section of broader bay of left wing, behind hall stack. Fielded panelling to ground floor of left end bay of main range, and shouldered fireplace surround with pulvinated frieze. C18 panelled doors. Pump in rear lean-to.

Listing NGR: TQ7890953806

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Legacy System number:: 433240
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.