The Rectory

HARTLEBURY CP HARTLEBURY SO 87 SW 1/83 The Rectory

14.3.69

• II*

Parsonage house. Shortly after 1700, altered early C19. Brick with ashlar dressings, hipped tile roof, chimney stacks at hips. Two storeys with attic lit by three gabled dormers, wooden modillioned cornice, stone string over ground floor, ashlar plinth, chamfered stone quoins; seven bays with central 3-bay quoined break forward, flush framed 18-pane sashes with flush ashlar quoined surrounds, under wedge lintels with keystone; central entrance with bolection moulded architrave beneath a shell canopy on scroll brackets, over- light marginally glazed, two-leaf 6-panelled door approached by steps with low flanking stone walls. Extreme right ground floor window bricked up internally. Interior: staircase moved to subsidiary position in early C19; early C18 rectangular panelling in room to right of entrance hall (now a study). A well preserved example of an early C18 parsonage. Faculty for reconstruction granted 20 August 1700 (Hereford & Worcester Record Office, BA 2648/10(ii) fo 72 v).

Listing NGR: SO8416171007