The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. Rectory. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- blind-steeple-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- Rectory
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST 3400 HAWKCHURCH HAWKCHURCH 20/297 The Old Rectory GV II
Former rectory. 1859 by John Hicks to whom Thomas Hardy was apprenticed. Large Victorian Gothic rectory. Stone rubble with freestone dressings. Steeply pitched plain tile roof with gables. Asymmetrical plan with gabled elevations. Two storeys and attics with large gabled dormers. Windows are groups of cusped lancets. One south-west side a two storeyed stone bay with similar lancets. Heavily moulded two centred arch doorway with altered bay window (formerly a large timber framed gable) above on massive stone corbels. Large stone chimney stacks with set offs, one on north-east side with octagonal shafts. Interior: Small stone Gothic chimneypieces. A plan of the house is drawn in Thomas Hardy's anotated sketch book, with the words "Hawkchurch Rectory (Rector delighted with its convenience)" ref: The Architectural Notebook of Thomas Hardy.
Listing NGR: ST3431100480
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