Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Rectory, house.
Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- over-rotunda-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Country
- England
- Type
- Rectory, house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory, originally built around 1588, is now a house that has undergone several changes over the years. It was rendered and had its windows altered in the early 19th century in a Gothick style. Additional modifications occurred in the 19th century and again in 1905, with extensive restoration completed in 1991. The building features coursed squared stone and brick, mostly rendered, with gabled and hipped roofs covered in plain tiles. It has brick side wall and ridge stacks from the 19th century, as well as a partly rendered external brick stack, and a stone plinth. The structure is two storeys high with garrets and has an L-plan layout, with a total of 15 windows arranged in a 3 by 5 pattern.
The windows are primarily casements with two pointed arched lights, and those on the first floor include glazing bars. The ground floor windows are slightly larger and all have been renewed. The east front displays five windows that are spaced unevenly. An external stack with a single lancet is located between a pair of windows on the left side of the front. This stack connects to the roof via a tiled gable with slate-hung sides. Below, the fenestration mirrors that above, with a central opening featuring a wooden screen in Perpendicular style and rendered nogging, which contains a traceried panelled door flanked by single lancets, all topped with 4-centred arches.
The left return of the building has a coped gable with kneelers and a finial, along with a sundial at the peak. The first floor window and a smaller garret window both have cornices. Below these is a 19th-century flat-roofed square bay window with two casements. To the left, in the return angle, there is a set-back square single-storey porch with a heavy cornice added in 1905. This porch features two 12-pane sash windows and a panelled door to the right. The right return has three windows that are spaced unevenly. On the ground floor, there is a two-light and a three-light window with glazing bars, a mid-20th century four-pane window to the left, and a small eight-pane sash to the right.
Inside, the building has been significantly altered, but at the north end, there are two first-floor rooms with early 19th-century coved ceilings. The early 19th-century dogleg stair and landing feature double stick balusters, and the accessible parts of the roof contain 19th-century structural elements.
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