The Old Rectory

THE OLD RECTORY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1372684
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:
The Old Rectory
Statutory Address:
THE OLD RECTORY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1372684
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:
The Old Rectory
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD RECTORY

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
Broadland (District Authority)
Parish:
Strumpshaw
National Grid Reference:
TG3578406101

Details

TG 30 NE STRUMPSHAW BUCKENHAM

8/65 The Old Rectory.

G.V. II

Former rectory house built for Rev. T.W. Beauchamp, rector 1814-63. Dated
1827, extended 1839. Red brick with hipped slate roof. Two storeys,
originally L-shaped plan. Lower courses of walls in thin brick laid in English
bond with traces of diaper work, suggesting a rebuilding of a house of c.1600.
Principal facade to south symmetrical : two-light casement windows with label
moulds over ground floor openings. Central two-leaf glazed door to garden
under a semi-circular brick arch of three orders. The centre bay is slightly
advanced with a stepped gable corbelled out. The gable contains a large sun
dial and the date 1827 in brick letters. Dog tooth brick eaves. Slated loggia
around perimeter of building supported on circular brick piers and cast iron
columns. Loggia has central pediment with elliptical soffit on south
elevation. Roof hipped over canted east and west ends. Later extension dated
1839 fills in north west angle of 'L'. Chimney stacks with clustered octagonal
and diagonal shafts, dated TPB 1827. Conical glazed light over staircase.
Interior contains many re-set archaeological fragments collected by Rev.
Beauchamp.


Listing NGR: TG3578406101

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
228513
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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