Description

SP 82 SW DUNTON MAIN ROAD
(south side)

7/6 The Old Rectory
(formerly listed as
The Rectory)

19.8.59

- II

House. Early C18, altered late C18. N.W. front is of red and
vitreous brick with moulded plinth, first floor band course and
moulded stone eaves. S.E. front is of vitreous headers with
flush red brick quoins, band course and window surrounds. Similar
plinth and eaves. Old tile roof, stone coped gables, flanking
brick chimneys. 2 storeys, attic and basement, 5 bays. Main
storeys have 3-pane sash windows in architrave frames with gauged
brick heads. 3 dormer windows with flat roofs, moulded cornices
and paired wooden casements, the central N.W. dormer with small
barred sash. Basement has 2 windows to N.W., that to right
blocked. Centre of N.W. front has longer sash to first floor
with intersecting, glazing bars, and steps to half-glazed door in
Ware doorcase. Doorcase has blind radiating fanlight in open
dentilled pediment on fluted Doric pilasters with triglyph
entablature blocks. Centre of S.E. side has half-glazed door with
rectangular fanlight. Canted oriel of wooden boards above with
moulded cornice top and round headed sash windows with Y glazing
bars and architrave frames. House has small attached flanking
service blocks, each of one storey and attic with moulded brick
eaves and old tile roofs; paired barred wooden casements and
board doors to N.W., that to right on S.E. side having Serlian
stone window with bonded central arch and moulded cornices over
flanking lights. Interior has central hall with late C18
staircase.

Listing NGR: SP8238124289

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26506968

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version