The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage
THE OLD RECTORY AND RECTORY COTTAGE, AVON DASSETT ROAD, AVON DASSETT, CV47 2AH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355547
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY AND RECTORY COTTAGE, AVON DASSETT ROAD, AVON DASSETT, CV47 2AH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355547
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY AND RECTORY COTTAGE, AVON DASSETT ROAD, AVON DASSETT, CV47 2AH
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 AND RECTORY COTTAGE, AVON DASSETT ROAD, AVON DASSETT, CV47 2AH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Avon Dassett
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 41163 50173
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/03/2017
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AVON DASSETT
AVON DASSETT ROAD (East side)
The Old Rectory and Rectory Cottage
(Formerly listed as The Old Rectory)
30/05/67
GV
II
Rectory, now house. Early C13 origins, with C17, C18, C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Regular coursed limestone and ironstone, with some ashlar and splayed plinth. Tile roofs with moulded coped gable parapets; stone and brick, and brick ridge and end stacks.
Complex T-plan, with cross wing on left. Two storeys and attic; five-window range. C20 battlemented porch in re-entrant angle has four-centred arched doorway and plank door. Cross wing has angle buttresses with two offsets, sill course and string course. Early C20 leaded stone-mullioned windows throughout. Main range has a four-light and two two-light windows with transoms, and two-light windows above. Cross wing has four-light transomed windows, and two-light round arched attic window.
To rear: cross wing has lower wing added to front, with C20 half-glazed door inserted into blocked window of two chamfered lancets. Left return side has blocked cellar lancet. Cross wing has slit window. Above is a C13 two-light window of chamfered lancets and shaft with stiff leaf capital; the arch and sub-arches have roll hood moulds.
Main range has old leaded cross window, and leaded casements. Mid C20 additions.
Interior: straight flight staircase has square shaped balusters, probably C20. Two panel and three-plank doors.
(VCH: Warwickshire, Vol.5, p.67; Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.80).
Listing NGR: SP4116350173
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 306119
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 67
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 80
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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