The Old Rectory

CHRISTIAN MALFORD CHURCH ROAD ST 97 NE 5/123 The Old Rectory GV II Former rectory, remodelled c1816 by John Provis with C17 cottage to rear. Main house is rendered with ashlar dressings and hipped low-pitched slate eaves roof, 2 storeys, L-plan. West front has 2 ashlar ridge stacks and facade stripped of render revealing rubble stone. Centre is recessed but roof carried over. Raised low plinth, band, eaves band, quoins and window surrounds. Centre has two 12-pane sashes each floor and centre arched doorway, beaded, with 9-panel door and fanlight. Projecting wings have ground floor 4-12-4-pane tripartite sash in raised segmental-headed surround and first floor 12-pane sash with raised surround and cornice on consoles. Long plain south front with four 12-pane sashes each floor, raised quoins, band and plain window surrounds. Ground floor windows are floor-length. One ridge stack and hipped east gable. East end has two upper windows, one to ground floor centre. Rear angle has single and 2-storey service range adjoining rear wall of C17 cottage, rubble stone with stone slate roof and east stack. Sloping dormer each side, north front has door in gabled porch, wooden cross-window to left, side stack to right and some exposed timber-framing at north-west angle. Interior: Regency-style door and window furniture, moulded with roundels. Stone cantilever stair in entrance hall with plain rails. Plaster cornices. (Wiltshire Record Office has plans by J. Provis dated 1816, for remodelling an existing house, including new staircase, not exactly as executed.)

Listing NGR: ST9613378456