The Old Rectory

LOVINGTON CP ST53SE

1/66 The Old Rectory 24.3.61 - 11 Detached cottage. Cl6 and later. Local grey lias stone roughly cut and squared; thatched roof between coped qables; brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. L-plan. Single storey with attics, 3 bays. Horizontal bar casement windows of 2 and 3 lights of several types, under exposed timber lintols; to upper bay 2 a window cut into thatch: between bays 2 and 3 a plain boarded door with glazed toplight under timber lintol. Interior not seen, but reported is a cross-passage plan: internal features noted include chamfered beams with shallow step and runouts, with 4-panel ceiling in west room, the central transverse beam ovolo-moulded; an in-and-out plank partition to the hall, with bead mould, and also a stud and plank partition: two first floor rooms have small ribbed plaster cornice; spiral staircase near rear hall door: rear wing has ovolo mould doorway with cambered arch, and former oven to north gable: roof has three jointed cruck trusses, blackened, with one windbrace in situ; and C17 collar beam trusses over parlour and return wing. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1977).

Listing NGR: ST5920831764