The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298537
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298537
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP2310956676
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP25NW ALVESTON
604-1/2/274 The Old Rectory
25/10/51
GV II
Rectory, now house. Early C16. Timber-frame with plaster
infill on rubble plinth; tile roof with brick stacks. 2
storeys; 4-window range. Entrance to left of centre has
battened door and C20 gabled porch. Varied windows have C20
casements with leaded glazing. Stack to front of ridge, to
left of porch. Close-studded framing. Right return has jettied
1st floor, big plastered chimney breast to ground floor, with
end stack to right of ridge; close-studded gable. Left return
is brick with timber-framed gable. Rear has hipped
ground-floor projection. INTERIOR recorded as having 3-bay
roof with braced tie beams and wind braces; flat joists. The
former parish church of St James (qv) is immediately to the
north west.
(VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon
and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 68; Buildings of
England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 65).
Listing NGR: SP2310956676
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366135
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Borough of Stratford Upon Avon and the Parish of Alveston, (1946), 68
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 65
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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