The Old Rectory

SU 75 SE WINCHFIELD

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1830, core about 1730. Gothick 2-storeyed house with asymmetrical facades of complex design. Steep roofing in red tile; 2 parallel ridges (one higher than the other) and in a cross-ridge. Walling is in ragstone rubble, with ashlar quoins and other features (in Caen stone, from Odiham Priory). The south front has a 2 -storeyed gabled porch with small coupled cusped lights above a pointed arch and buttresses, with 2 steps and a plinth, while the sides have a slightly- recessed lower wall containing a small light: the west side is a gable with (uniquely in the house) a red brick wall having a pattern of curving joints with flush stonework to openings, topped by an ashlar chimney stack with coupled octagonal flues separated from a plain base by a projecting rounded moulding: the east side is marked by a tall projecting stack, with irregular set-offs; 2 small ground-floor lancets and a single-storeyed projecting unit with a large triangular-arched window. The long west elevation has a centrepiece of small projection containing a group of 4 lancets above 4 mullion and transomed lights; on each side irregular fenestration of 1, 2, and 3-light lancets, 2 groups on the ground floor having cusped heads: the roof contains 2 gabled dormers at different levels and without cheeks, tile faced, with 2 and 3 square wooden win- dows, 3 stacks (2 with octagonal grouped flues). The east (rear) elevation has a ground-floor outshot for most of its width (with 2 dormers lacking cheeks in its roof), a gable, a massive projecting stack. The north elevation has 2 gables, one set back, with a varied window treatment and a painted doorway. Most openings are chamfered, most windows have diagonal leaded lights; in some places a red brick plinth is exposed.

Listing NGR: SU7696453250