66, Rectory Road

TL 72 NE STISTED RECTORY ROAD (east side)

1/279 No. 66

GV II

House. Circa 1700, altered in late C19 Tudor Revival style, extended in C20. Timber framed with some exposed imitation framing, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays aligned E-W (gable end to road) with central stack. Late C19 and C20 single-storey extensions to N, forming an irregular T-plan, and C20 porch extension at NW corner. 2 storeys. W elevation (to Rectory Road), ground floor, 2 C19 casements of 6 and 9 lights respectively; first floor, one C19 square oriel of 3-9-3 lights with hipped roof. Imitation framing of straight geometrical pattern, fretted bargeboards with carved finial and pendant, all C19. S elevation, ground floor, 2 C19 square bays of casements of 3-9-3 lights with hipped roofs; first floor, 2 C19 casements of 6 lights and one C20 casement. C20 door. Plain stack. 2 chamfered transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops, joists plastered to the soffits. 2 C20 grates in central stack. One internal tiebeam, boxed in. Face-halved and bladed scarf in N wallplate. Frame mainly concealed by internal and external plaster, but there are indications that the walls have been raised approximately 1.50 metres. Main range only shown on tithe map of 1839 (Essex Record Office, D/CT 355). The external architectural treatment is similar to that of several other houses in Stisted, particularly in The Street, carried out for Onley Savill Onley in the period 1860-80.

Listing NGR: TL7985425460