The Old Rectory

SK 16 SW SHEEN C.P. SHEEN

6/112 - The Old Rectory

GV II*

Former parsonage. Circa 1852 by William Butterfield. Coursed stone, blue machine tile,half-hipped roof with crested ridge tiles; ridge stacks. Asymmetric, essentially rectangular plan. Asymmetric high Gothic entrance frontage of 5 windows,in two parts with 2-storey and attic service block to left and 1 -storey and attic to right, bridged by lower polygonal-fronted stair turret and steeply pitched roof, clasping in return to right single-storey, buttressed, lean-to entrance porch; massive stacks with battered flue heads, enhancing greater height of left hand block. Two-light mullioned and labelled casement windows to left, pent dormer; trefoil-headed lights to stairway and labelled pairs of pointed-arch windows in square recesses to ground floor right with small square lights to half storey over porch. Garden front has projecting two-storey gabled bay corbelled out over three-sided ground floor bay window; ranges of tall trefoil-headed lights to ground floor. Interior: pine panelling to dado level in main rooms;'simple fireplaces and some library shelving remain. Wrought iron bell pull by entrance.

Listing NGR: SK1133361426