The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, 158, BLANDFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1275403
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, 158, BLANDFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1275403
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, 158, BLANDFORD 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, 158, BLANDFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poole
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 99832 90586
Details
POOLE
SY99SE BLANDFORD ROAD, Hamworthy 958-1/4/235 (North side) 14/06/54 No.158 The Old Rectory
II*
Manor house, later rectory. c1650. For Carew family. Interior altered mid C19. Restored C20. Red brick in English bond on coursed squared limestone plinth, plain tile roofs and brick end stacks. Compact plan with central cross hall, staircase to rear of hall, a major room either side and lesser rooms to rear. 2 storeys and attic; 7-window range. Main front faces east and is articulated by an order of giant Ionic pilasters defining bays, with pedestals and full entablature. Central 2-storey porch with door and window to first floor flanked by pilasters. doorway has round-arched head, imposts and key block. Window has flat-arched head. Porch is flanked by half bays with narrow windows to ground and first floors either side with flat-arched heads. 2 outer bays have windows of uniform size with similar flat-arched heads. 3 attic gables above cornice with ogee curves to sides and pediments, that to centre segmental. One window to each gable with flat-arched heads. Wave-moulded brick coping to storm plinth, first-floor storey band and recent timber cross windows except to half bays which have timber transoms only. INTERIOR: stone-flagged hall separated from stair by C19 screen. C19 open-well stair with stop-chamfered newel posts, turned balusters and scrolled tread ends. Drawing room has stop-chamfered spine beam and stop chamfered joists. Mid C19 stone fireplace with Tudor-arched fireplace opening with carved spandrels, frieze of encaustic tiles and moulded cornice. A gentry house of national importance in the artisan mannerist style, very little altered externally. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 238; Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-: 223; Barley M: Houses and History: LONDON: 1986-: 231).
Listing NGR: SY9993390498
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412426
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barley, M, Houses and History, (1986), 231
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 238
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 223
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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