The Old Rectory

STEEPLE LANGFORD DUCK STREET SU 03 NW (east side) 2/72 The Old Rectory 23.3.60. (Formerly Listed as the Rectory) GV II Rectory, now private house. Circa 1700, additions late C19. Chequered flint and limestone, tiled roof, ashlar stacks with moulded cappings. Originally T-plan, late C19 wing added to rear right. Two-storey, 7-windowed; casements. Late C19 classical- style ashlar porch with double panelled door to left of centre, four cross windows to right, two to left. Cellar to left of entrance has two recessed chamfered mullioned casements. Moulded string course to first floor; seven cross windows in groups of three and four, coped verges and late C19 gabled dormer to roof. Right return has cross window to ground floor, narrow chamfered casement to first floor and 2-light mullioned casement to attic. Left return has external stack with offsets and cross window to right, late Cl9 wing in similar style attached to left has four cross windows to ground and first floor, two gabled dormers to roof. Rear of main range has mullioned windows, central projecting stair wing. Interior said to have stairs with barleysugar balusters. Ceased to be the rectory 1970. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: SU0369037430