The Old Curacy

BROME RECTORY ROAD TM 17 NW 1/14 The Old Curacy 29.7.55 II House, at one time the rectory. C16 with C19 alterations and additions. Timber framed and plastered with a thatched roof. 2 storeys and attic. 3- cell form, originally with cross-entry. 3 windows, early C19 casements with trefoil-cusped heads to the lights, the lower windows with sunk spandrels. Small hoodmoulds. 4 additional single-light first floor windows with 2 centred arches and hoodmoulds. Lobby entrance: 4-centred arched doorway with sunk spandrels; C19 6-panel raised and fielded door with arched head, the central panels with square-leaded glazing. C20 open gabled porch. Internal stack with C16-C17 shaft; against the left gable end an external stack set forward of the ridge. In the hall is a moulded axial bridging beam with barred stop-chamfer and chamfered joists; in the rear wall is the blocked cross-entry doorway, with a flat head. In the parlour both bridging beam and joists are moulded. In C19 the stack was tunnelled through and substantial additions made at the rear, where there is a well stair with stick balusters and carved tread-ends. First floor and roof not examined.

Listing NGR: TM1394976457