Crossacres The Old Rectory

SS9146 SELWORTHY CP SELWORTHY VILLAGE 26/110 Crossacres and The Old Rectory (formerly listed as 2 separate items) 22.5.69

GV II Rectory, now 2 private dwellings. C16 in origin, extensively altered late C19 and mid C20. Roughcast over rubble, setback buttresses west end and south-west corner, slate roofs, external stack west gable end, south gable, lateral stack east side. L-plan, parallel range of dairy east end, subsequently raised to 2 storeys, stair turret north east corner. Two storeys, 3:2 bays south front, left full height gabled bay, 3-light right, gabled 4-light beyond, all C20, gable front south end with 2-light ogee headed casement in place of earlier entrance to right of stack, raised dairy end, oriel window with ogee light, C20 door with side lights below, 4-bay west front, left return with ogee headed lights under hoodmoulds. Extensively altered internally and externally buttress only early feature now surviving, but early-mid C19 model at the Old Rectory shows house prior to alterations; entered on north front through full height gabled porch flanked by lateral stacks, 3-bay rear elevation, 3-bay south front, single storey dairy and stair turret on east elevation. A rare example of a vernacular house with a model surviving from previous century.

Listing NGR: SS9187946722