Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 2000. Rectory. 1 related planning application.

Old Rectory

WRENN ID
worn-rafter-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Country
England
Date first listed
29 February 2000
Type
Rectory
Source
Historic England listing

Description

The Old Rectory, now a house, was built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is constructed of rendered stone facades, with some areas having modillion eaves and deep eaves elsewhere. The rear walls are of coursed stone rubble. The roofs are slated, with gables and parapets to extensions, and incorporate integral eaves stacks, with two projecting stone stacks at the rear, all featuring brick shafts.

The main front elevation is a two-storey, three-window range featuring 6/6 sash windows, with a central pair of plain, three-panelled glazed doors and an overlight, sheltered by a projecting flat-roofed porch. This porch has corner pilasters and large glazed lights on its front and sides, with a glazed panel and fanlight with radial and festoon glazing bars in the porch door. The ground floor of the main elevation features horizontal rustication and a string course at the first floor level.

The left return side is a two-storey, three-window range, with the left bay slightly advanced and fitted with 6/6 sash windows at the first floor, and 4/4 full-height sashes at ground floor, the left ground floor window having 2/2 side lights. The right return side has a single-window range with 6/6 sashes under cambered heads, the ground floor window featuring 2/2 sash side lights. The first floor is stuccoed over a stone rubble ground floor.

A late 19th-century projecting two-storey bathroom extension, built of stucco and with a parapet wall, adjoins the left side. A two-storey service wing to the right has a 3/6 sash window at first floor and a cambered-head 6/6 sash window below. The rear elevation has a single-window range of 3/6 sashes with stone segmental lintels at both floors in the centre. A projecting stone rubble stack is to the right, and a masking projecting, two-storey stone service wing with a slate roof extends to the left.

The interior retains many original features, including box shutters, deeply moulded skirtings, six-panelled doors with architraves (some with panelled reveals), and original fireplaces. The open string staircase has thin turned balusters, two per tread, and a dado with low-relief, double-bordered panelling. The library on the ground floor right has pilastered shelving with a modillion cornice and light-bordered wall panelling.

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