Glebe House the Old Rectory
GLEBE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355435
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House the Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- GLEBE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- 2002-04-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/06329/21
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355435
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe House the Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLEBE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN 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:
- GLEBE HOUSE, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Farnborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 43318 49593
Details
FARNBOROUGH MAIN STREET SP4349 (East side) 16/38 The Old Rectory and Glebe House
GV II
Former rectory, now 2 houses. 1814. Possibly designed by Henry Hakewill. Entrance pavilion and loggia added shortly afterwards. Service wing, now Glebe House, extended 1875. Scored colourwashed render with regular coursed stone plinth; Glebe House of Flemish bond red brick. Slate shallow-hipped roofs with broad eaves; rendered and brick internal stacks. Complex L-plan with wing to left forming Glebe House. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 3-window range. Square open-fronted entrance pavilion to right has angle piers and plain entablature and steps. Door of 2 shaped rectangular panels in moulded wood architrave. Screen wall to left. Main range has corners scored, giving the effect of angle piers throughout. Basement has 2-light casements with glazing bars; stone lintels with keystones. Sashes throughout. Attic has round-arched half-dormers, with eaves carried over as hoods. Low sashes with fan-light glazing. Right return side is 2 storeys on different levels; 4-window range. Right bay projects slightly. Half-glazed door in angle has narrow moulded wood architrave arid flanking panels, recessed within fielded panelled piers. Full-width fan-light with many glazing bars is largely hidden by loggia roof. Quadrant curve 5-bay loggia from entrance pavilion to door. Pavilion and entrance have rendered piers, the inner slightly recessed. 4 painted wood openwork uprights and lattice-work frieze throughout. Interior has apsidal alcove with painted wood architrave with heavy reeding and corner roundels. Small window to left of door. Right bay has tripartite window under segmental arch. Slightly recessed bay above door. 2 left windows on lower level have small sunk panels above. Garden front: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Ground floor has some alterations. Tripartite window on right under segmental arch. Mid/late C19 sash to left of centre. Small central pediment on 2 pairs of brackets. Interior: hall has segmental arches with panelled pilasters, one with panelled soffit. Dog-leg staircase with winders and scrolled open string, arid column newels. Moulded cornices. Some vertical sliding shutters. Glebe House is 2 storeys; 6-window range. C20 doors to left and right. 6-panelled door to right. Two 6-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. First floor has sashes. Stone flat arches.
Listing NGR: SP4331849593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305613
- 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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