The Old Rectory

SJ 30 NE PONTESBURY C.P. BROOKSIDE

3/167 The Old Rectory -

GV II

Former rectory, now house. Probably late C16 or C17, re-modelled c.1767 with later additions and alterations, principally of mid-C19. Timber framed, now encased in uncoursed limestone rubble (datestone 1767 to gable of cross-wing) with red brick dressings; machine tile and slate roofs. Hall and cross- wing plan extended and altered. 2 storeys; hall probably of 2 1/2 framed bays and flush cross-wing of one bay; windows all mid-C19 casements with cambered heads, one-window range to cross-wing (upper now blocked), one to right of entrance, which has a bracketed gabled hood over a 6-panel mid-C19 door (upper panels now glazed), with a further rectangular casement above; external red brick stack against rear gable of cross-wing (which has timber frame exposed) and another stack (re-built in mid-C20 brick) in roof slope to left, also to rear. Partly timber framed outshut under catslide roof. The former parsonage of the rector of the third portion of Pontesbury parish. V.C.H. VIII (1968), p.252.

Listing NGR: SJ3987705949