THE OLD RECTORY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1341963
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY
Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1341963
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD RECTORY

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

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Staunton
National Grid Reference:: SO 77845 30649

Details

STAUNTON - SO 73 SE

6/193 The Old Rectory

II

Former rectory, now house. 1854 by W.H. Knight of Cheltenham. Coursed, squared stone with ashlar dressings, brick chimneys above eaves, tiled roof, fish-scale coursing on right. Irregular plan, 3-bay main wing, projecting section to right of centre, 2 storeys: 2½ -storey single-bay rear projection, single-storey 'L' plan service wing on rear. Entrance front, plinth: porch with arched opening, moulded surround, up 5 stone steps: hoodmould, uncarved stops: small buttress left extending front wall. Parapet gable, large kneeler, cross-gablet apex. To right wall of projection in same plane: 3 irregularly-spaced ogee trefoil-headed lancets, moulded string as sill, relieving arches over: buttress on right continues line of front wall. Set back on right: similar lancet but with high transom, repeated in splay to canted bay end to block, both with relieving arches over, immediately on right. First floor moulded string throughout at window sill level: on left of porch stepped corbels to external first-floor chimney: finished 2 octagonal brick flues above eaves. Gable: canted oriel on moulded stone corbel below; trefoil-headed lancet each face with sunk spandrels, stone hipped roof. To right chimney in angle corbelled across corner, 'L' plan brick top, Serrated parapet gables left and to projection, cross-gablet apices, hipped on right. Right return: canted end to main block: in splays as noted fronted, paired similar in centre. First floor smaller paired similar in centre only, rising into gabled dormer, stone parapet. To right single-light window with transom, flat stone lintel to slightly-lower ground floor: relieving arch over. Two- light similar to right; moulded string above; 2-light similar above: but without transom. Gabled dormer over with 2-light lancet, trefoil ogee head, stone parapet gable. Serrated parapet gable on right with chimney on ridge. Single-storey wing below right, in same plane, 2-light casement with transom and flat stone lintel: long wing projects forwards to right, single light similar window at rear of left return: twin lancet in gable with relieving arch over: projecting purlins to gable. Brick chimney on ridge towards rear of wing. Interior not inspected. (Drawings at C.R.O., P309 IN 3/1)

Listing NGR: SO7784530649

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Legacy System number:: 126012
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.