Old Rectory is a Grade II* listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1951. Former rectory.
Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- ruined-portal-tide
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1951
- Type
- Former rectory
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory, a former rectory dating from around 1730, was enlarged and re-faced in the 1840s. It features flint and gault brick dressed walls, with a roof covered in 20th-century smut pantiles. This double pile house has a service wing and is composed of five bays over two storeys. The north front displays a 2-1-2 bay facade, with a central entrance bay that is 2 and a half storeys high and topped with a pediment. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are set under flat rubbed brick arches and flanked by brick quoins. The porch is supported by crudely rusticated square piers and pilasters, with an entablature and pediment above, and features a leaded glazed door. The end bays and the central bay have rusticated brick quoins, and the eaves cornice is adorned with moulded brick modillions. There are two moulded brick stacks on the ridge. This structure fronts an earlier house from around 1730, with a flint and brick service range to the left. The north pediment has been altered, while the south front is almost identical to the north, though the two left bays feature longer windows on the ground floor and have a doorcase instead of a porch, with the pediment intact. There are also two stacks on the ridge, and the house has a hipped roof with a shallow pitch.
Inside, the north pile contains two rooms of two bays each, designed in the style of William Kent from around 1730. The right room features a moulded panelled dado and window embrasures, a framed door with a broken pediment, six raised fielded panels, a marble fireplace, a compartment plaster ceiling, and a modillion cornice with a white veined marble fireplace. The hall and staircase, dating from the 1840s, include cast iron balusters and a mahogany rail. The south pile has a left two-bay room with a Greek cornice and a central rosette featuring palm leaf motifs from around 1840.
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