The Rectory

REDDITCH B IPSLEY LANE (north side) SP 06 NE Ipsley

2/116 The Rectory

10.4.54

• II

House, used as rectory, now hotel. C17, remodelled c1812 with mid-C19 alterations and additions. Brick (partly handmade) stuccoed to front; slate roof of very heavy graduated slates and with parapets and urn finials at gable ends to front; plain tiled roofs to rear main part and additions; brick ridge stack to west wing and external brick chimney to east side elevation. H-plan. Two storeys, attic-and cellar with chamfered plinth and also dentilled eaves cornice to sides and rear. South front elevation: 1:1:1 bays; rusticated end quoins to projecting wings; windows are all round-headed with moulded architraves, keyblocks and fluted pilastered frames and have Gothick-style sashes with intersecting traceried glazing bars; central recessed part is also gabled and has a first floor window and beneath it the main entrance; this has an open pediment, engaged Doric columns and round-headed doorway with half-glazed door and traceried glazing; at the apex of the central gable is a gryphon finial. Interior: some Cl7 wall-framing visible in the east wing; roof has much re-used timber of C17 date including probable ovolo mullions. First floor room to front of west wing has a barrel roof and acanthus mouldings on door and window architraves; dog-leg staircase with very slender turned balusters to rear of central part. There is a Cl7 timber-framed wing adjoining to the rear of the-west-wing; two framed bays aligned east/west with single-bay cross-wing at east end adjoining rear of main west wing; two levels; three panels from sill to wall-plate, long straight braces in lower corners and collar and tie-beam trusses with struts. South elevation has two circular windows with radiating glazing bars at ground floor level; there is a central gable in which is situated a similar circular window. At centre of roof ridge is an octagonal louvred lantern with a clockface and domical roof with weathervane. C19 additions to rear of east wing. (VCH 3, p 123).

Listing NGR: SP0684066678