The Old Rectory

CHAFFCOMBE CP KNAPPS LANE (South side) ST31SW ST31SE The Old Rectory 1/4 2/4 1.2.58

• 11*

Detached house.C15 origins, possibly not as a house, adapted Cl6 and C17, with later modifications. Local stone rubble, with some cob, with bay 3 rendered, all colourwashed; thatched roof with full hips; brick chimney stacks. 'L'- plan: 2 storeys: 5 bays, random fenestration, of which bay 4 would seem to be a later extension. A variety of windows: to bay 1 ovolo-mould timber casements, 4-light below and 3-light above; to bay 2 are early casements of 3 lights with chamfered mullions; lower bay 3 is blank, but to upper bay 3, and both levels bay 4 are steel casements of 2- and 3-lights. Left of bay 2 a projecting colourwashed brick porch with thatched roof, having glazed outer doors, but the inner doorway has a heavy timber frame shouldered at the head, of cl500, with boarded door. Small lean-to extension to rear. Internally the plan of 2 rooms with cross passage: the south room has a flat-headed moulded surround fireplace against cross-passage, with associated deep hollow-chamfer beams and staircase on other side of doorway having heavy turned balusters under heavy rail with ball finial to newel and pendant droll probably all late C16/early C17: north room, divided from passage by stud and panel screen, has a fireplace with scroll to the bressumer. On first floor a boarded partition of in-and-out pattern. Of the four roof trusses, two are jointed crucks, one open and one closed, and the others are either tie-beam trusses or post-and-truss structures, both closed and later modified; one surviving windbrace; Some wattle-and-daub work-in roof space, and at north end a one-bay-wide smoke bay. Sequence of development before C17 has been much debated. (VAG Reports, unpublished SRO, August 1973, May 1975, February and October l978).

Listing NGR: ST3499810183