Heatleys

Heatleys

House, formerly known as the Old Rectory of Ingrave. Built in phases spanning the 16th, 17th, 19th centuries, and 1902. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with brick also rendered. Roofs are peg-tiled. The plan is irregular, comprising two timber-framed units aligned north-south, with a 19th-century wing to the east at the south end. Extensive additions were made in 1902 to the north and east sides around the timber-framed blocks. The 19th-century wing was reworked in the 20th century; both this wing and the 1902 work are not considered of special interest and are excluded from this listing.

West front elevation

The principal block is two storeys with an attic storey. It features a rebuilt heavy 17th-century central stack of thin bricks, with a second stack on the south end gable. The front elevation presents a three-window range with a central two-storey hip-roofed porch. The sash windows have glazing bars; the four outer windows are 4x4 panes, the first-floor porch window is 3x4 panes with horns. The doorway is of simple plain classical form with a fanlight featuring trellis glazing bars, and a door of six flush, bead-decorated panels. To the north end stands a lower one-and-a-half-storey timber-framed block with a heavy stack at its north end. The ground floor has two combined sash windows in one frame with glazing bars, each 3x4 panes. Above is a hip-roofed dormer window of three casement lights, 6x4 panes.

Rear, east elevation

The old house is considerably masked by 19th- and 20th-century work. Although reworked, a stair tower in line with the stack rises to roof level with a slated roof. The ground floor has a simple two-light casement; the first floor has a window of four casements with glazing bars, 8x3 panes; a fixed attic window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes, is above. The north end is largely covered by 20th-century work, but the principal block has an attic window of three casements with glazing bars, 6x3 panes.

South end elevation

There is a central stack; on its east side are ground and first-floor sash windows with glazing bars, 3x4 panes, and an attic casement of 2x2 panes.

Interior

Much has been rebuilt, but the outer timber-framing of the principal block is visible on the first floor, showing face-halved and bladed scarf joints and typical triangular-sectioned clamps for attic floor joists. The ground floor has one surviving axial joist with lamb's-tongue chamfer stops, linked to the stack at the north end. A similar joist at the south end was replaced by a rolled steel joist in the 20th century. The passageway from the central porch now cuts through the central stack. The block to the north has a single undecorated axial joist aligned east-west.

Historical development

The principal block is a symmetrical, two-celled, two-storey and attic, lobby-entrance house of the early 17th century with a contemporary rear stair tower. The two-storey porch may also date to this period, although much reworked. The block to the north may be earlier and represent the cross-wing of an older house, retained at the time of the 17th-century rebuilding to serve as an attached kitchen.

The building was the old Ingrave Rectory. A terrier of 1610 describes it as "a house containing a hall, a parlour, a buttery, 2 lofts and a study and also a kitchen, a millhouse and a house for poultry, a barn, a stable and a hay house --- and about 32 acres of glebe". This description accords with the surviving principal block and kitchen at the north end.