Rectory House
Rectory House, Church Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390397
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory House
- Statutory Address:
- Rectory House, Church Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390397
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Feb-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Rectory House, Church Lane
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:
- Rectory House, Church Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bracknell Forest (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Warfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 87968 72157
Details
SU87 SE
674-1/12/183
WARFIELD
CHURCH LANE (south side)
Rectory House
07/12/66
II
Formerly known as: Rectory House. Rectory to Church of St Michael (qv) now private house. Date of 1820 on rainwater hopper heads, extended 1906.
MATERIALS: Bath stone ashlar, low-pitch slate roof behind parapets. Extension has old tile pyramidal roof and is rendered.
PLAN: square plan with extension on south.
EXTERIOR: two storeys and basement. Two large central chimneys with several clay pots. Four flat pilasters on each front, resting on basement plinth, support moulded cornice and parapet, and continue through parapet to end in semi-circular finials with palmette decorate. Sash windows with glazing bars, flat stone surround, moulded cornices to ground floor windows. Symmetrical entrance front to west. Three-bay windows.
First floor centre window blocked and filled with arms of previous owner. Eight steps to entrance door of six fielded panels, with patterned fanlight well set back behind early C20 brown stone frontispiece, of round arch on paired columnettes, with embellishments.
INTERIOR: late C18 marble chimneypieces in sitting room and library, with foliage carving. Dog-leg staircase with stick balusters, wreathed handrail, and closed string with carved tread ends.
HISTORY: Sir William James Herschel, inventor of the system of identification by finger prints, lived in the house, in the late C19.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489384
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 4 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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