The Old Rectory

SALTFORD

ST6867 THE SHALLOWS 739-1/6/95 (West side) 19/06/75 The Old Rectory (Formerly Listed as: KEYNSHAM THE SHALLOWS, Saltford (West side) The Rectory)

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Rectory, now house. 1814 with c1840 and later C19 alterations. Render and coursed rubble stone dressings, ashlar bays and copings; shallow-pitched slate roofs with end and ridge ashlar stacks. PLAN: irregular L-shaped plan with staircase in the angle of the two ranges. EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 3-window ranges face south and east. South facade of 3 elements: two 3-light outer bay windows rising above eaves with tall casements to ground floor and plate-glass sashes to first floor; recessed panels between window areas and blind parapets above eaves. The bays are tied into the facade by platbands across the entire wall face. Single plate-glass sash to first-floor middle bay. East facade has central tripartite porch with glazed Carnarvon-arched openings flanking part-glazed, panelled door; projecting gabled bay to right with tall 2-light paired casements to ground floor, bracketed cornice and sunk panels with roundels at mid-floor level and 2 plate-glass sashes above with blind semicircular-arched heads and keyed oculus below gable with oversailing eaves. INTERIOR: includes 1814 staircase with cast-iron handrail and floral balusters. FURTHER INFORMATION: the bay window is in the manner of the Bath Italianate school of HE Goodridge /Wilson and Wilcox. (White E: Keynsham and Saltford: Keynsham: 1990-: 47).

Listing NGR: ST6867867334