Old Rectory
OLD RECTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305230
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RECTORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305230
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- 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:
- OLD RECTORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elkstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 96769 12312
Details
SO 91 SE ELKSTONE ELKSTONE VILLAGE 3/123 Old Rectory (previously listed as Rectory) 4.6.52 II
Former rectory, now large country house. Early C18; back partly rebuilt 1847 by Francis Niblett; late C20 loggia. Limestone ashlar; imitation ashlar render to loggia; concrete interlocking tile roof. 3-storey with cellar; double pile. Front of 3 storeys and 5 windows with central projecting single-storey porch; all windows are round headed and all have original early C18 9-pane sashes, the upper leaf of each with round head; rusticated architraves with keystone linked to plain band above; keystones to top floor windows link with modillion eaves cornice; spaced rusticated quoins to match windows; porch doorway is round-headed with plain architraves, keystone and imposts; 6-panel fielded door with fanlight over to match windows; rusticated Tuscan pilasters; very small round-headed 2-pane sashes with matching architraves to sides of porch. Ashlar chimneys with unmoulded caps at back of front range. Back range projects beyond front at north end; parapet gables to both side elevations, those to back range having ridge-mounted ashlar chimney stacks with unmoulded caps; at south end of back range a 4-light recessed chamfered mullioned window with hoodmould to cellar, presumably a survival from earlier house. Back elevation of 3 storeys and 5 windows, the outer windows being 2-storey rectangular bays with tripartite window to each floor and C19 sashes; three 9-pane sashes with plain architraves and one 6- pane to top floor; 2 sashes to middle floor; projecting rectangular loggia to ground floor has moulded cornice to parapet roof and plain central opening flanked by unglazed window openings; reached by flight of steps; 9-pane sashes to cellar. Interior remodelled in C19. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)
Listing NGR: SO9676612309
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 127223
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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