The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1955. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- roaming-passage-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1955
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house that was formerly a rectory, believed to have been built in 1726 according to a plaque. It underwent alterations in the late 18th to early 19th century and was extended in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of brick and features an eaves cornice with narrow dentils and a hipped roof covered in old tiles. It has a double pile design with two storeys, a basement, and an attic.
The west front is made of header brick and has a taller central section with a shallow gable and prominent flanking chimneys. The chimneys are detailed with flint quoins and rectangular shafts that have band courses and offset heads. Between the chimneys is a central bay containing a door, an arched first-floor sash window, and an altered stone plaque, flanked by narrow bays with 2-pane sashes, which are blind on the first floor, and blind square windows in the attic. The outer windows feature flat brick arches, while the central first-floor window has a gauged brick arch and jambs set in a rusticated flint surround with a stone keyblock. There is a whitewashed stone sill course and a band course below the first-floor windows. The door is a six-panel design with a segmental radiating fanlight and is sheltered by a wooden porch supported by Doric columns and a cornice hood, accessed by five stone steps.
The south front has two bays with large tripartite sash windows on the ground floor, 4-pane sashes above, and two gabled dormers with paired barred wooden casements. The basement features cambered arches, with the left side having a 20th-century barred wooden casement and the right side over a blind opening. There is a central tall narrow doorway with rusticated flint jambs and a semi-circular arch, now fitted with a 20th-century glazed door and fanlight. Above this is a false window with a flat-headed flint surround. To the right, there is a matching 20th-century bay with French doors and a flint surround above a 4-pane sash window.
The north front displays irregular brickwork, 4-pane sashes, a central basement door, and an arched staircase window, along with leaded casements in the basement and other later openings. The interior has been significantly altered in the early 19th century.
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