The Old Rectory

EAST ANSTEY EAST ANSTEY SS 82 NE 2/11 The Old Rectory - - II

Former rectory. Probably late C18 or early C19, remodelled in mid C19. Painted stuccoed stone rubble. Hipped slate roof with deep bracketted eaves. Rendered stacks at each end and lateral stack to outer face of rear kitchen wing. Plan: Principal room to eacn side of entrance hall, with principal staircase in rear 2-storey outshut, butting onto kitchen wing to rear right side which has a short gabled service wing extending at right angles to the right and enclosing the stack. Brick lean-to at left end. Exterior: 2 storeys. 3-window range, including central 2-storey porch. Symmetrical. 16 paned sashes above French windows to left and 24 paned sash to right of gabled 2-storey porch which has Gothic pointed arched sash window with margin glazing bars above similar doorway with intersecting glazing bars to the overlight and 6 panelled door. The upper 4 panels glazed .The porch appears to have been added. Interior: Chamfered cross ceiling beam to rear kitchen suggests older fabric may have been incorporated in the late C18 or early C19 rebuilding. The 2 front principal rooms have been altered in C20, but mid C19 joinery survives throughout. Plain staircase with stick balusters. Principal bedrooms have panelled ceilings.

Listing NGR: SS8677826377