The Old Rectory

STOW MARIES CHURCH LANE TQ 89 NW (west side) 4/113 The Old Rectory GV II House. Circa 1800. Gault brick in Flemish bond, mostly painted, roofed with interlocking concrete tiles. Square plan facing E with 2 internal stacks in left half, and 2 stacks in right return. Original single-storey service wing to right, with hipped slate roof of low pitch. To rear of it, later C19 single-storey extension with gabled roof of slate, and C20 single-storey extension with flat roof. Early C19 extension to left of 2 storeys with pyramidal roof. 2 storeys. The main building has a 3-window range of original sashes of 12 lights with flat brick arches, and a central 6-panel door with blocked overlight. The door and the ground-floor windows are recessed in semi-circular arches. The right wing has 2 C19/C20 sashes. The left extension has one original sash of 8 lights on each floor. Pyramidal roof of low pitch. The rear elevation of the main building has on the ground floor one C20 French window, one original sash of 12 lights and one C20 replacement, and on the first floor 2 original sashes of 12 lights and one C20 replacement, all with flat brick arches. The house is described as 'bricked and slated' in a terrier of 1818, with a garden to the W, a lawn to the S, and a yard and various ancillary buildings to the N which are not now present (July 1985), and 34 acres of arable land (Essex Record Office, D/P 391/3 and D/AEM 2/6).

Listing NGR: TQ8341999343