The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, THE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322631
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, THE AVENUE
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- Date:
- 2002-06-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/07507/20
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322631
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, THE AVENUE
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 AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Oakley
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 18896 27209
Details
GREAT OAKLEY THE AVENUE TM 1827-1927 (east side) 7/22 The Old Rectory
GV II
House. Early C19, in Gothick style. Red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main house of complex plan, approximately square, with 3 internal stacks, facing N. Service wing set back to left, with end stack, and late C19 single-storey lean-to extension beyond, with slate roof. Main house of 2 storeys and attics, service wing of 2 storeys. The main house has a 3-window range of original sashes of 16 lights with shallow segmental arches, plastered reveals and crown glass. Central door with moulded stiles and 4-centred head, doorway with richly moulded jambs and arch, and in the spandrels a rose, portcullis and foliage, all of plaster, in buttressed and crenellated 2-storey tower-porch, with moulded plaster string at first-floor level, and 2 chamfered loops in each side wall. Grouped octagonal chimney shafts. The service wing has on the ground floor one C20 casement in an original aperture, another altered to a C20 glazed door with side-light, and on the first floor 3 original sashes of 3+6 lights with shallow segmental arches, plastered reveals and crown glass. Plain chimney shaft. The rear elevation has on the ground floor one original sash of 15 lights, 2 of 12 lights, and one tripartite sash of 5-15-5 lights, on the first floor one tripartite sash of 3-9-3 lights, one sash of 12 lights, 2 of 4+8 lights and one blind aperture, and on the attic floor one original sash of 6 lights, with flat arches of gauged brick, plastered reveals and crown glass. There are moulded plaster labels over most of the windows of the main house. This house is an exceptionally complete example of its style and period. Shown in the tithe award of 1841 (Essex Record Office, D/CT 258)
Listing NGR: TM1889627209
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 120264
- 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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