Description

WILLOUGHBY WATERLEYS
MAIN STREET (East Side)
SP59 SE
4/70 The Old Rectory (previously
listed as The Leys)
11.1.55

GV II*
House. Circa 1740. Brick, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeyed, with attic and 5
bays symmetrically arranged with central doorway in moulded wood architrave
which has a flat canopy on consoles. The door itself has glazed upper lights
with heavy astragals. Windows are now 4-light sashes, and have moulded wood
architraves and flat splayed finely gauged brick heads with painted
keystones. Projecting painted stringcourse. Stone coping to parapet with
roof recessed, and having 3 dormers, alternately steeply triangular and
segmental. Double pile plan formerly with 3 windows in side elevation though
2 lower lights are blocked, one to form a lancet doorway, and one upper window
also blocked. Those that remain are 2-light casements with transoms. Inside
fine contemporary staircase with 3 balusters to a tread, alternately turned
and twisted. Plasterwork cornices.

Listing NGR: SP5752492458

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539084

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2