The Old Rectory, And Railings And Walling To West

ST4112 HINTON ST GEORGE CP CHURCH STREET (West side, off)

7/53 The Old Rectory, and railings and walling to west (formerly listed as Rectory)

4.2.58 GV II

Detached house. 1841, nearly on the site of its predecessor. Ham stone roughly cut and squared, ashlar dressings; hipped Welsh slate roof. Brick and stone chimney stacks. North elevation 2 storeys, 3 bays. Plinth, band and eaves courses, plain pilaster strips between bays and double pilasters to corners; 12-pane sash windows in architraves. To lower bay 2 a pair of 3-panelled doors with fixed toplight over, set into architraved recess, up 2 steps. Matching west elevation of 4 bays, of which bay 4 projects slightly: east elevation less elaborate: lean-to on south side. Interior not seen, except for the lobby, which is late Regency in character. Attached to north-west corner of house a short length of double-carved ashlar wall with cast-iron spearpoint railings set thereon; then walling of cut and squared stone with thin ashlar coping, about 3 metres high, leading to the east gateway of the churchyard (qv), adding to the setting of the house and the approach to the Church of St George (qv). (VCH Somerset, Vol IV, 1978, p49).

Listing NGR: ST4190212674