Old Rectory
OLD RECTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324022
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RECTORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324022
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- 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.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cheselbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 76197 99871
Details
CHESELBOURNE SY 79 NE
5/38 Old Rectory
26.1.56
GV II*
Former rectory, now private house. Late C16, extended to east and north in early C19. Front refenestrated in C19. Knapped flint walls, banded with stone and brick, with ashlar quoins and dressings. Clay tile roofs with stone slate eaves courses, roof of the porch entirely stone slated. Rebuilt brick stacks on gable ends. Plan, original building, plain rectangle of 3 bays, original partitioning now doubtful. Staircase is in the north wing. Two storeys and attics. 3 windows and 2 windows. Ground floor has 3-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions, having wood casements with glazing bars, all late C19. First floor has 2-light mullions, original but reset. The extension in knapped flint and brick has 3-light casement to ground floor, with segmental brick arch over, and two 2-light casements over, with segmental brick heads. Central porch has a doorway with moulded jambs, 2-leaf flush panel door, with fanlight over with radiating glazing bars. North range, at centre, has brick and flint banded walls. Early C19 sashes with thin glazing bars. Wood cills, brick arches over. Original rear doorway is visible owing to its exposed label, C16. Interior: east wall of original building has stone fireplace with rectangular head and jambs outlined by a heavy roll-mould. The deep lintel has remains of painted decoration in dark red depicting fleurs-de-lis c1600. North jamb has blocked opening to an oven. West room has a fireplace with moulded jambs and square head, c1600. Stone lintel over a blocked opening in north wall, is carved with a shield, sun and green man face, c C17. (RCHM Dorset III, p77(3))
Listing NGR: SY7619799871
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106226
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 77
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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