Rectory Farmhouse

SO 4598 WOOLSTASTON C.P. WOOLSTASTON

10/108 Rectory Farmhouse -

• II

Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings, now farmhouse. Mid and late C17 with late C19 alterations and additions. Timber framed with plastered infill, partly rendered with planted and painted timbers; high sandstone rubble plinth to right; plain tile roof. Approximately 5 framed bays aligned roughly north-south with attached former farmbuilding of 2 framed bays to north; baffle-entry south end. Framing: square panels (3 and 4 from sole plate to wall plate) with short corner braces. One storey and attic. East front: six C19 and C20 timber framed gabled eaves dormers; brick ridge stack off-centre to left, central brick stack behind ridge and integral lateral brick stack to-front. 7-window front; late C19 and C20 2 and 3-light wooden casements. Pair of C20 half-glazed doors to left-with gabled wooden porch; central lean-to brick porch with C20 glazed door in left- hand return and bread oven projecting to right; glazed door off-centre to right. Right+hand gable end has collar and tie-beam truss with v-struts; left-hand gable end with C19 canted bay. Interior: chamfered beams and timber framed cross walls; introduced C17 panelling, said to have come from Woolstaston Hall (q.v.) probably when it was partly demolished in the late C18. It is also said that the south end of the farmhouse is constructed from reused timber, also possibly taken from the Hall when it was partly demolished. V.C.H., Vol VIII, p 171.

Listing NGR: SO4512298481