Old Rectory
OLD RECTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342542
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RECTORY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342542
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- 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:
- OLD RECTORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 98407 04527
Details
CRANWORTH TF 90 SE 9/9 Old Rectory (formerly 4.12.51 listed as Cranworth Rectory) - II Former rectory. Circa 1840 incorporating an earlier building. Limewashed brick and black pantile roof. Irregular plan. 2 storeys. Entrance facade of 5 bays with end bays slightly taller. Sash windows with glazing bars beneath skewback arches. One tripartite sash window to south echoed by a former tripartite window to north, now converted into French windows. Off- centre 2-leaf part-glazed front door with an open porch on a pair of unfluted Doric columns. Wide eaves to all sides of house with renewed shaped and paired brackets. South facade. Large 2-storeyed canted bay with 6 sash windows with glazing bars beneath skewback arches. Single storeyed rectangular projection with front slightly segmental in plan. 3 blind windows with skewback arches, moulded cornice and a loop balustrade. North facade of 5 bays of sash windows with glazing bars (2 blind) with an oculus and smaller sash window to western end. Lead downpipes with moulded hoppers and many prominent chimney stacks. Services around a courtyard to rear. Interior. Dining room screen with a pair of Ionic columns. Some fine Greek derived plaster cornices. Plaster vaulted rooms to first floor - mainly 3-centred barrels with a particularly notable integration of the canted bay to the south. Swept main staircase with twisted balusters and rope-twist handrail. Surviving glebe terrier with drawings.
Listing NGR: TF9840704527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220801
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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