The Old Rectory

THE OLD RECTORY, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363922
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:
The Old Rectory
Statutory Address:
THE OLD RECTORY, THE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363922
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
16-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
The Old Rectory
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD RECTORY, THE 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD RECTORY, THE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Brinkworth
National Grid Reference:
SU 01527 84450

Details

SU 08 SW BRINKWORTH THE STREET (south side)

10/18 The Old Rectory (formerly listed as The Rectory) 12.12.51

II

Former Rectory, now rest home. Late C18 core with late C19 alterations and additions and further additions in 1936. Ivy-clad brick to C18 block, some half-timbering and plaster to C19 addition and coursed rubble to 1936 wing; stone slate roofs, that to C18 block hipped. Tall brick stacks and one east end stone stack. L- shaped plan with C18 range to left, 1936 wing to right and late C19 additions to rear. Two-storey C18 block with sash fenestration: paired 18-pane sashes to ground floor, paired 8-pane to upper. Two and 3-light sash fenestration to 1936 wing; one gabled dormer and gabled end bay with concrete facing tiles. Glazed conservatory in the angle with C18 block supported on Roman Doric columns. West front has 1936 segmental hood on brackets and 6-panel door with spoked semicircular fanlight. Leaded pane glazing to late C19 window to right and half-timbering to left. Interior. Early C19 marble chimneypiece in ground floor room to left in C18 block.

Listing NGR: SU0152784450

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
315640
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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