The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, BROOKSIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366690
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, BROOKSIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366690
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, BROOKSIDE
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, BROOKSIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pontesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 39877 05949
Details
SJ 30 NE PONTESBURY C.P. BROOKSIDE
3/167 The Old Rectory -
GV II
Former rectory, now house. Probably late C16 or C17, re-modelled c.1767 with later additions and alterations, principally of mid-C19. Timber framed, now encased in uncoursed limestone rubble (datestone 1767 to gable of cross-wing) with red brick dressings; machine tile and slate roofs. Hall and cross- wing plan extended and altered. 2 storeys; hall probably of 2 1/2 framed bays and flush cross-wing of one bay; windows all mid-C19 casements with cambered heads, one-window range to cross-wing (upper now blocked), one to right of entrance, which has a bracketed gabled hood over a 6-panel mid-C19 door (upper panels now glazed), with a further rectangular casement above; external red brick stack against rear gable of cross-wing (which has timber frame exposed) and another stack (re-built in mid-C20 brick) in roof slope to left, also to rear. Partly timber framed outshut under catslide roof. The former parsonage of the rector of the third portion of Pontesbury parish. V.C.H. VIII (1968), p.252.
Listing NGR: SJ3987705949
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259469
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1968), 252
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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