Outbuilding To The South West Of The Old Rectory, And Attached Boundary Wall

ASHOVER SK3463 CHURCH STREET 1264-0/11/37 (East side) Outbuilding to the south-west of the Old Rectory, and attached boundary wall GV II Outbuildings and attached wall. Late C18, with mid C19 alterations. Regularly coursed squared gritstone with ashlar dressings, quoins, hipped and gabled roofs with stone and Welsh slate roof coverings, the gabled roof with copings and plain kneelers. West elevation has stepped 2-storey range built on sloping ground, linked with a tall boundary wall. Taller range to north end, with a hipped roof, rising from a raking plinth, and of 2 bays, with a single 6-light window to the upper floor, in plain surround. Inserted triangular-based dovecote entry in gable, above intersection with lower range to south, with triangular landing platform and perch, leading to a single tier of openings. North gable with quoined first floor doorway, now a window with 45 panes. Lower range with stacked windows to the centre of the west elevation, with flush surrounds, the upper window single light, the lower 2-light, with 6-paned frames. Attached boundary wall, with plain copings and quoins to returns, slopes upwards to the building, the walling rising in height as the ground falls away to the south, to almost 4m at the southern extremity. The wall is approximately 24m long, with two 4-metre setbacks.

Listing NGR: SK3486763066