Rectory Court
1-6 RECTORY COURT, RECTORY GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277901
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Court
- Statutory Address:
- 1-6 RECTORY COURT, RECTORY GARDENS
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- Date:
- 1999-09-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/00035/23
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277901
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-6 RECTORY COURT, RECTORY GARDENS
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:
- 1-6 RECTORY COURT, RECTORY GARDENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Combe St. Nicholas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3006511297
Details
ST31SW COMBE ST NICHOLAS CP RECTORY GARDENS (west side)
6/59 Nos 1-6
(consecutive) Rectory Court
-
- II
Vicarage, now divided into flats. Circa 1840, Italian villa style, Squared and coursed chert stone, limestone
dressings, stuccoed on garden front, hipped slate roofs with overhanging eaves, pyramid roof to tower, Plan: entrance
tower at east end fronting road, garden front with canted bay facing south, set into hillside at west end with cottage
(not of special interest). East front tower: 3 storeys plus attic left bail only (tower), l:1 bays, pilaster quoins with
rusticated ground floor to towers, paired light opening to attic with ashlar surround, flat string through lintel of
wooden 2-light oriel with modillion cornice and shaped brackets, to right 12-pane sash window, first floor left 2 tall
arch-head windows in ashlar surround, 12- pane tripartite sash window right with 6-sane below, entrance left moulded
lintel, semi-circular headed opening with incised spandrels and panelled door, half-glazed inner door, Left return of
tower fronting onto garden slightly modified in C20 and ground floor roughcast; main block fronting garden only
partially sighted, full height bow, 1:3;1 bays, 12-pine sashes with keystones. The vicarage divided into flits in the
1970's.
Listing NGR: ST3006511297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430050
- 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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