Heathfield Rectory

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OAKE CP HEATHFIELD South Front, Steeple End and West Wing Heathfield Rectory

(Formerly listed as Heathfield Rectory, HEATHFIELD, previously listed under Norton Fitzwarren CP)

17.5.85

II Rectory, now divided into flats. Circa 1860, on the site of an earlier rectory, by Edward Jeboulte. Uncoursed local stone, quoins, low stepped buttresses to cross gables, overhanging eaves decorative bargeboards, patterned clay tiles, decorative ridge tiles, brick stacks on ridge. L-plan: short entrance front west, long south front and turret in south east corner.

West front: two storeys, 3:1 bays; two- and three-light mullioned and transomed windows half timbered gables to windows left, entrance centre right, steeply pitched gabled porch, patterned clay tiles shaped wooden supports on stone plinth, depressed four-centred arch doorway, coeval door. Long 5:1 bay south front with three half timbered gables and large cross gable right, another entrance second bay left. Right return, (east front), with gable, single storey canted bay and tall spire with bell-cast, slated roof, carried on pierced trefoil headed supports in south east corner.

The incumbents, the Rev. Spurway, father and son, brewed cider here which was marketed commercialy with some success. A lively composition, remarkably unaltered.

Listing NGR: ST1512026849