The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333581
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333581
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE 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:
- THE OLD RECTORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 34314 00485
Details
ST 3400 HAWKCHURCH HAWKCHURCH 20/297 The Old Rectory GV II
Former rectory. 1859 by John Hicks to whom Thomas Hardy was apprenticed. Large Victorian Gothic rectory. Stone rubble with freestone dressings. Steeply pitched plain tile roof with gables. Asymmetrical plan with gabled elevations. Two storeys and attics with large gabled dormers. Windows are groups of cusped lancets. One south-west side a two storeyed stone bay with similar lancets. Heavily moulded two centred arch doorway with altered bay window (formerly a large timber framed gable) above on massive stone corbels. Large stone chimney stacks with set offs, one on north-east side with octagonal shafts. Interior: Small stone Gothic chimneypieces. A plan of the house is drawn in Thomas Hardy's anotated sketch book, with the words "Hawkchurch Rectory (Rector delighted with its convenience)" ref: The Architectural Notebook of Thomas Hardy.
Listing NGR: ST3431100480
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87981
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hardy, T, The Architectural Notebook of Thomas Hardy, (1966)
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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