The Old Rectory

TL 51 SW SHEERING CHURCH LANE

3/19 The Old Rectory

GV II

Rectory, C18, extended c.1800, now a private house. Gault brick and stucco, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Originally comprised an C18 house of 2 storeys with attics, aligned approx. NE-SW, with axial chimney stack. Extended to NE and W c.1800 in Gothick style, stucco, 2 storeys, and to NW, one storey. Internal chimney stack in NE wall. SE (garden) elevation ground floor, french window, bay with 3 C20 double-hung sash windows, 2 early C19 double-hung sash windows with some crown glass. First floor, 2 C20 double-hung sash windows, bay with 3 early C19 double-hung sash windows, 2 more with some crown glass. In roof to SW, 3 hipped dormers. Gothick extension to NE, crenellated parapet with octagonal corner towers, drip moulding, label mouldings over windows. Some smoke-blackened medieval rafters re-used in roof of SW block. SW chimney stack partly of re-used C16 bricks, mixed indiscriminately with later bricks, exposed in SW ground floor room.

Listing NGR: TL5085913572