The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330943
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330943
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, HIGH STREET
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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fowlmere
- National Grid Reference:
- TL4223745995
Details
TL 4245
18/126
FOWLMERE
HIGH STREET
(North Side)
The Old Rectory
II
Rectory now a house. 1853-4, by H.E. Kendall (1805-85). Italianate style.
Gault brick; slated hipped and gabled roofs. Two tall stacks. Two storeys,
symmetrical facade with central bays projecting and rising to gabled attic
floor. Deep boarded eaves with paired modillions; brick band linking first
floor windows at impost height; rusticated brick banding to ground floor and
plinth. All windows with recessed hung sashes without glazing bars in
segmental or round headed brick arches with stone key blocks and stone sills
supported on console brackets. Two large ground floor, and two first floor
windows flank central two bays with rectangular planned ground floor window
and first floor balcony; three grouped ground floor windows and similar,
smaller attic windows; two first floor windows similar to side windows.
Main entrance to west with large panelled glazed door and with a round headed
brick canopy. Interior: Details contemporary, open string staircase.
V.C.H., Vol. VI, p.162
Water Colour in Church possibly by Kendall; an architectural composition of
the rectory.
Listing NGR: TL4223745995
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52939
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 162
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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