The Old Rectory

SJ 5623-3723 MORETON CORBET C.P. MORETON CORBET

18/67 The Old Rectory 11.8.76

GV II

House, latterly rectory. Probably C15 or C16 with C17 additions, c.1840 alterations and addition, and mid-C19 additions. Rendered timber frame, partly rebuilt and extended in red brick; plain tile roofs. Range of 3 framed bays with later parallel range to north-east and further additions to north-west. One storey and attic and 2 storeys. Four large timber framed eaves dormers, one C19 to left with planted timbers and 2-light diamond-leaded casement and three C17 to right with C19 three-light metal casements, jettied gables with moulded bressumers and carved brackets, and decorative framing (that to right with intersecting diagonal framing and 2 to left rendered with painted imitation framing). Large brick ridge stack off-centre to left and stack consisting of 2 diagonally-placed shafts to left-hand C19 addition; rear range with integral brick end stacks and brick ridge stack off-centre to left. 2-window front; 2- and 3-light segmental-headed wooden casements. Roughly central half-glazed C19 door and rendered C19 gabled porch with pair of C20 boarded doors. Mid-C19 service wing projecting at right-angles to left terminating in a pair of former cottages with central brick ridge stack. Small C17 attic window with 2 diamond mullions in right-hand gable end. Rear: c.1840 range. Dentil brick eaves cornice. 3 bays; first-floor wooden cross windows and ground-floor 3-light mullioned and transomed wooden casements extending to floor level. Interior; front range: pairs of chamfered spine beams. Large open fireplace in left-hand ground-floor room with dressed grey sandstone reveals and cambered chamfered wooden lintel and large open fireplace in central ground-floor room with chamfered grey sandstone reveals, chamfered wooden lintel, reset C19 glazed tiles, and rectangular stone panel in stack to left. Collar and cambered tie-beam trusses with queen struts, end truss with v-struts_also; pairs of purlins with wind braces. Wattle and daub infill panels. Circa 1840 range: dining room has introduced C18 fireplace with lugged architrave, carved frieze and dentil cornice and drawing room has introduced late C18 fireplace with central urn and husk swags. Three-flight c.1840 staircase around rectangular well with winders at foot, open string with cut brackets, stick balusters (2 per tread), and curtail; ceiling rose; panelled window shutters. There is evidence that the house stands within a moated site (see ditch to north-east). Various garden features (not included on this list) incorporate fragments of dressed and carved masonry, possibly the result of restorations of and alterations to the neighbouring Church of Saint Bartholomew (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ5609223261