The Old Rectory And Adjoining Garden

SJ 4623-4723 MYDDLE C.P. MYDDLE

15/97 The Old Rectory 27.5.53 and adjoining garden wall (formerly listed as The Rectory)

GV II

House, latterly rectory, now house, and adjoining garden wall. Circa 1747 with early to mid-C19 alterations and additions. Red brick with sandstone dressings, partly rendered; slate roofs. Early C18 range with parallel early C19 range behind. 2 storeys and attic over basement. Chamfered stone plinth, wooden dentil eaves cornice, and parapeted gable ends with moulded stone kneelers and copings. 3 eaves dormers with 2-light wooden casements and triangular-pedimented gables. Front range with integral brick end stacks and integral brick stack at rear; 2 stacks to addition at rear. 3 bays; sashes without glazing bars (probably C18 with glazing bars removed), with painted stone cills and painted stone lintels with raised triple keystones. Central ground- floor window replacing door (see straight joints beneath) with painted wooden raised triple keystone. Left-hand return front with full-height canted bay to rear range; right-hand return front has pair of early C19 half-glazed doors with margin lights. Section of stone coped red brick garden wall adjoining at rear has probably reset round archway with moulded stone architrave, and reset datestone superscribed: Interior: largely remodelled in the early to mid-C19. L Entrance hall divided by 3 segmental arches. 3-flight R E rectangular-well cantilevered stone staircase with landings, 1711 open string, cast-iron balustrade with husk-type balusters, moulded handrail, and curtail with columnar foot newel. Landing with continued balustrade, 2 large arches, and rectangular top light. Early C19 dog-leg wooden back staircase with closed string, stick balusters, turned newels, and ramped handrail. 6-panelled doors throughout with moulded architraves. D. Parkes, writing in 1805, says that there was the following inscription against the east wall of the chancel of the church of St. Peter (q.v.): "The chancel and parsonage house was rebuilt by Dr. Egerton Leigh, A.D. 1747". D. H. S. Cranage, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, The Appendix, p.1000.

Listing NGR: SJ4676423709