THE OLD RECTORY AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN TO NORTH EAST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326622
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1989
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN TO NORTH EAST
Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN TO NORTH EAST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326622
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1989
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN TO NORTH EAST
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD RECTORY AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN TO NORTH EAST

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY AND WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN TO NORTH EAST

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Pyworthy
National Grid Reference:: SS 31094 02159

Details

SS30SW PYWORTHY CP

13/57 The Old Rectory and walls enclosing garden to North-East GV Rectory, now dwelling, with walls enclosing former kitchen garden. 1836, minor alterations c1900. Random rubble with brick dressings, hipped slate roof with boarded eaves, large brick stack at junction with service wing, the latter lower, independently roofed with hipped slate roof of steeper pitch. Plan: main block facing road, one room on either side of wide hall with top lit stair well, double pile service wing. Main elevation: 2 storeys, 3 bays, pilaster quoins, projecting central bay and full height segmental headed recesses to outer bays, all 16-pane sash windows, central Doric porch, wooden columns resting on granite and brick blocks, pilaster doorcase, handsome double doors of 6 panels each. Left return first floor oriel window inserted c1900 in main block, service wing: 2 storeys, 3 bays, all 3-light wooden casements with pointed arch head lights, slate roofed gabled porch with ribbed door and 3 pointed arch heads to rectangular light. Similar fenestration on rear elevation of service wing. Interior: reeded surrounds to doorways, panelled doors with c1900 finger plates, 1930s chimneypiece in room to right, c 1900 room to left, original shutters in both rooms and depressed segmental headed recesses against both exterior walls; stick stair swept back, open string with ornamented ends continued as decorative frieze along landing originally lit by oval, panelled skylight which has been cut down and boarded over. Some of the original marble chimneypieces and cast iron grates survive on upper floor including an opulent cast iron hob grate in a bedroom in the south-east corner of the service wing. Garden walls: c1836, random rubble local stone, slate and cement humpback coping, returned on 3 sides from north-east corner of the Old Rectory enclosing about half an acre, pilaster buttresses and pointed arch openings in north and south walls. The elevation of the Rectory is very similar to that of Parnacott (qv), though the connection between the two houses is unclear. White`s Directory of Devonshire states the rectory was built in 1836; the early C20 renovations are probably the work of the Rev Donaldson who was the incumbent from 1903. The rectory was sold by the Church Commissioners in 1977. (White's Devonshire, 1878)

Listing NGR: SS3109402159

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Legacy System number:: 91964
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Whites Directory' in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1878)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.