The Rectory
THE RECTORY, IPSLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348635
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE RECTORY, IPSLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348635
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RECTORY, IPSLEY LANE
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 RECTORY, IPSLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Redditch (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 06840 66678
Details
REDDITCH B IPSLEY LANE (north side) SP 06 NE Ipsley
2/116 The Rectory
10.4.54
- II
House, used as rectory, now hotel. C17, remodelled c1812 with mid-C19 alterations and additions. Brick (partly handmade) stuccoed to front; slate roof of very heavy graduated slates and with parapets and urn finials at gable ends to front; plain tiled roofs to rear main part and additions; brick ridge stack to west wing and external brick chimney to east side elevation. H-plan. Two storeys, attic-and cellar with chamfered plinth and also dentilled eaves cornice to sides and rear. South front elevation: 1:1:1 bays; rusticated end quoins to projecting wings; windows are all round-headed with moulded architraves, keyblocks and fluted pilastered frames and have Gothick-style sashes with intersecting traceried glazing bars; central recessed part is also gabled and has a first floor window and beneath it the main entrance; this has an open pediment, engaged Doric columns and round-headed doorway with half-glazed door and traceried glazing; at the apex of the central gable is a gryphon finial. Interior: some Cl7 wall-framing visible in the east wing; roof has much re-used timber of C17 date including probable ovolo mullions. First floor room to front of west wing has a barrel roof and acanthus mouldings on door and window architraves; dog-leg staircase with very slender turned balusters to rear of central part. There is a Cl7 timber-framed wing adjoining to the rear of the-west-wing; two framed bays aligned east/west with single-bay cross-wing at east end adjoining rear of main west wing; two levels; three panels from sill to wall-plate, long straight braces in lower corners and collar and tie-beam trusses with struts. South elevation has two circular windows with radiating glazing bars at ground floor level; there is a central gable in which is situated a similar circular window. At centre of roof ridge is an octagonal louvred lantern with a clockface and domical roof with weathervane. C19 additions to rear of east wing. (VCH 3, p 123).
Listing NGR: SP0684066678
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156592
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 123
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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