The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338010
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338010
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, THE 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, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashen
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 74781 42347
Details
TL 74 SW ASHEN THE STREET, East Side 1/7 The Old Rectory GV II
House, early C19. Gault brick, slate roof. Originally an almost symmetrical plan, aligned approx. N-S, aspect W, with central entrance hall, axial chimney stack on S side of it, and external chimney stack on N wall. Extended to N soon after construction, with chimney stack in N wall. 2 storeys. The original building has a central door with 4 glazed panels in recessed porch with stucco pilasters and architrave, and 3-window range of double-hung sashes of 12 lights with cast-iron lintels. Hipped roof of low-pitch. The N extension has a 2- window range of double-hung sashes of 16 lights with similar cast-iron lintels, and a hipped roof of normal slate pitch, steeper than the original roof. The E (garden) elevation is similar except that the original part has french windows each of 16 lights, and the ground-floor windows of the N extension are tripartite double-hung sashes of 4-12-4 lights. All the windows in both elevations are original, and most of the panes are of crown glass. The only external alterations are that the N wall has been rendered, and there is an external stair on it with glazed sides and corrugated asbestos roof, C20. The cast iron lintels are of particular historical interest, and are rare. One at the rear of the original house bears the date 1835. J. McCann: Antique Ironwork - cast iron windows and fanlights, Period Home, October/November 1982, 5-9.
Listing NGR: TL7478142347
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114415
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Period Home in Period Home, (1982), 5-9
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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