Description

SU 55 NW BAUGHURST RECTORY LANE
8/35
16.5.66 The Old House
(formerly listed as
Wolverton Rectory
under Wolverton)

II

Early C18, late C19. Queen Anne house (the nearby rebuilt church is 1717), with later
extensions to the rear. The east front has 2 storeys and attic to the symmetrical
main part, of 5 windows; and 2 storeys to the offices (south) wing, of 3 windows.
Tile roof, hipped central dormer. The main front has a stone coping to a parapet red
brick walling in Flemish bond, rubbed flat arches, sashes in exposed frames (those to
the ground floor having floor level cills): the wing has a tile roof with brick
dentil eaves, English bond walling with rubbed arches to the ground floor, sash
windows (the central being a Venetian light). The substantial Victorian extensions
have matching form, on a larger scale: the north front includes a columned porch with
arched stone hood and simple mouldings. Within, the hall and a ground floor room
retain C18 pinewood panelling.

Listing NGR: SU5665359212

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26384842

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Recommended Books

• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)