The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, ACORN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347684
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, ACORN STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05151/24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347684
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, ACORN 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, ACORN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunsdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 41802 13889
Details
TL 4113
8/1
HUNSDON
ACORN STREET
(west side)
Hunsdon village
The Old Rectory
II
House, sometime a rectory, C18, extended in later 1840s when it
became the rectory. Whitewashed brick. 2 storeys. 3 window
block with a hipped slate roof; long sash windows in rectangular
frames with sills. Stucco band between storeys. Boxed eaves.
Another 3-window block projects forward on the right; 5 old sash
windows and 1 modern casement, all of horizontal proportions
under segmental arches and with sills. Boxed eaves and projecting
chimneystack. Covered passage from door in internal angle
between blocks to street door set in pilastered brick doorway in
a curved brick wall. An elegant early Victorian rectory formed
by the extension of an L-shaped C18 house when the former
rectory became Hunsdonbury in the late 1840s.
Listing NGR: TL4180213889
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159937
- 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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