The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306732
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-11-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/01330/24
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306732
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH LANE
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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Maldon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stow Maries
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 83419 99343
Details
STOW MARIES CHURCH LANE TQ 89 NW (west side) 4/113 The Old Rectory GV II House. Circa 1800. Gault brick in Flemish bond, mostly painted, roofed with interlocking concrete tiles. Square plan facing E with 2 internal stacks in left half, and 2 stacks in right return. Original single-storey service wing to right, with hipped slate roof of low pitch. To rear of it, later C19 single-storey extension with gabled roof of slate, and C20 single-storey extension with flat roof. Early C19 extension to left of 2 storeys with pyramidal roof. 2 storeys. The main building has a 3-window range of original sashes of 12 lights with flat brick arches, and a central 6-panel door with blocked overlight. The door and the ground-floor windows are recessed in semi-circular arches. The right wing has 2 C19/C20 sashes. The left extension has one original sash of 8 lights on each floor. Pyramidal roof of low pitch. The rear elevation of the main building has on the ground floor one C20 French window, one original sash of 12 lights and one C20 replacement, and on the first floor 2 original sashes of 12 lights and one C20 replacement, all with flat brick arches. The house is described as 'bricked and slated' in a terrier of 1818, with a garden to the W, a lawn to the S, and a yard and various ancillary buildings to the N which are not now present (July 1985), and 34 acres of arable land (Essex Record Office, D/P 391/3 and D/AEM 2/6).
Listing NGR: TQ8341999343
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 117438
- 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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