Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. A C18 Former rectory, country house. 8 related planning applications.
Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- sharp-attic-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Former rectory, country house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a former rectory, now a large country house, dating to the early 18th century. The rear of the building was partly rebuilt in 1847 by Francis Niblett, and a late 20th-century loggia was added. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar, with imitation ashlar render to the loggia, and has a concrete interlocking tile roof. It is three storeys high, with a cellar, and is double pile.
The front elevation has three storeys and five windows, with a central, single-storey, projecting porch. All windows are round-headed, with original early 18th-century nine-pane sashes, the upper leaf of each with a round head. The windows have rusticated architraves with keystones linked to a plain band above. Keystones to the top floor windows link with a modillion eaves cornice. Spaced rusticated quoins match the window details. The porch doorway is round-headed, with plain architraves, a keystone, and imposts, and contains a six-panel fielded door with a matching fanlight above. Rusticated Tuscan pilasters flank the door. Small, round-headed two-pane sashes with matching architraves are located on either side of the porch. Ashlar chimneys with unmoulded caps are present at the back of the front range.
The back range projects beyond the front at the north end, with parapet gables to both side elevations. The side elevations have ridge-mounted ashlar chimney stacks with unmoulded caps. At the south end of the back range, a four-light recessed chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould serves the cellar, likely a survival from an earlier house.
The back elevation is also three storeys and five windows, with the outer windows being two-storey rectangular bays containing tripartite windows to each floor and 19th-century sashes. There are nine-pane sashes with plain architraves, one six-pane to the top floor, two sashes to the middle floor. A projecting rectangular loggia to the ground floor has a moulded cornice to the parapet roof and plain central opening flanked by unglazed window openings, and is accessed by a flight of steps. Cellar windows are nine-pane sashes.
The interior was remodelled in the 19th century.
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