Crosstree House The Old Rectory

CHEDZOY CP FRONT STREET (East side) ST33NW 1/7 The Old Rectory and Crosstree House - - II

(Marked on O.S. map as Rectory). Rectory, now divided into 2 dwellings. Circa 1830, probably by Richard Carver, the Diocesan architect, on an earlier C18 core, some C20 refenestration. Rendered and scribed to resemble ashlar, angle buttresses with set-offs, hipped and gabled slate roofs, some bitumen treated. Some polygonal stacks with moulded stone caps, 3 grouped stacks set diagonally, some C20 stacks, 2 pedimented dormers with ornamental finials to south. L-plan. Gothic. Main entrance front to south of The Old Rectory, 2 storeys and attic, irregular fenestration, 2-light stone-mullioned windows with labels and a canted stone oriel with quatrefoils at base. Embattled single-storey entrance porch, string with carved panels, 4-centred arch door opening in stone surround, traceried door. Large single-storey canted stone bay to garden front. Other elevations in conforming style, some U.P.V.C. casements on roadside elevations. Coeval interior stated to be of some quality.

Listing NGR: ST3402337521