The Old Rectory

CHEDGRAVE RECTORY LANE TM 39 NE 6/8 The Old Rectory 25-9-51 (formerly listed as Rectory)

• II

House, formerly rectory. C17 with C18 and C19 remodelling and additions. Brick, partly encasing earlier timber frame, partly rendered over and all colourwashed. Black glazed pantiled roof with shallower pitch over south end. Two storeys and attics, cruciform plan, partly double pile to north. South gable has ground floor half-glazed two leaf doors with eared architrave and rectangular fanlight; first floor and attic sashes with glazing bars. Gable parapet with ball finials to base. Dentilled brick eaves. Cross wing to road with clasping corner pilasters with ball finials: steep gable parapets. Two ground floor, two first floor sashes with glazing bars and architraves. Attic sash in gable apex. Large external stack in south-west angle; weathered offsets, top section rebuilt in gault brick. Earlier north range of four windows: sashes with glazing bars and architraves. Four attic dormers with rendered and weatherboarded cheeks; sashes with glazing bars. Large square axial chimney stack. Good doorway opposite stack: panelled reveal, fluted Doric pilasters supporting open pediment; semi-circular fanlight with intersecting glazing bars, pair of half-glazed doors with glazing bars. Modillion eaves cornice. Internal chimney stack in north gable of eastern pile; small single storey gabled extension at north gable. Interior contains good staircase c1680 with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: TM3584999402