Old Rectory

STIFFKEY CHURCH STREET TF 9743 (north side)

14/120 Old Rectory

30.11.51 II*

Former Rectory of c1730, enlarged and re-faced C184O. Flint, gault brick dressed walls. Roof C20 smut pantiles. Double pile house, service wing. Five bays, 2 storeys. N front 2-1-2 bay facade, central 2 1/2 storey pedimented entrance bay. Sash window, glazing bars, under flat rubbed brick arches, brick quoins. Porch wood crudely rusticated square piers and pilasters. Entablature, pediment, leaded. Glazed door. End bays and central bay, brick quoins rusticated, moulded brick modillions to eaves cornice. Two brick stacks, moulded, to ridge. This pile refronts an earlier house of c1730. Flint, brick service range to left. N pediment altered. S front almost exactly similar to N, but 2 left bays have longer windows to ground floor, also doorcase not porch, pediment intact. Two stacks on ridge. Hipped roof to house, shallow pitch.

N pile 2 rooms of 2 bays each in William Kent style C1730. Right, 2 bays, moulded panelled dado, window embrasures. Framed door, broken pediment; 6 raised fielded panels, marble fireplace, compartment plaster ceiling, modillion cornice. White veined morble fireplace. Hall and staircase C1840, cast iron balusters, mahogany rail. S pile: Left 2 bay room C1840 Greek cornice and palm leaf central rosette.

Listing NGR: TF9738943090