Description

SS81 SE CRUWYS MORCHARD CRUWYS MORCHARD
2/84 The Old Rectory including the
- stable block
II
Former rectory, disused at time of survey (1986). 1862, built for the Reverend G.S.
Cruwys at a cost of £3,000 (White's Devonshire (1878-9). Snecked local stone with
some freestone dressings; 2-span slate roof, gabled at ends with 2 gables to the
front; stone stacks with grouped ashlar shafts. Some cob visible in stable block.
Tudor style with some ambitious detail although rather old-fashioned for 1862.
South-facing double depth main range, 2 rooms wide with a central entrance into a
corridor containing the stair. The 4 rooms are heated from axial stacks with back to
back fireplaces. A narrow service courtyard to the west is formed by U plan service
rooms adjoining the rear left (north west) of the main range and extended to the
front by a stable block and groom's room. Access to the service courtyard is through
an archway between the stables and service rooms. There is a second, smaller
enclosed courtyard at the rear of the main range, formed by a gabled block to the
north and a miniature baronial battlemented wall to the north-east.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay front, gabled to the front at left and right. Shallow
central battlemented porch with central gable and a moulded stone Tudor arched
doorway between buttresses with set-offs. Panelled front door with Tudor arched
fanlight with intersecting glazing bars. To the left the front elevation is slightly
broken forward with a 2-storey battlemented canted bay with transomed mullioned
timber windows to the first and ground floors with a frieze of blind stone tracery
between them; 2-light casement to attic storey in gable. To the right of the front
door 3-light transomed mullioned timber windows ; similar 2-light window above porch
with the remains of some stained glass quarries.
The east elevation (visible from the drive) is equally important with a shallow 2-
storey battlemented bay lighting the ground and first floor rooms at the front with
4-light transomed mullioned windows with king mullions and a frieze of blind tracery
between; 2-light window to attic storey in gable with square leaded panes. The rear
rooms of the east elevation have 2-light transomed mullioned windows. Adjoining the
east elevation to the rear is a section of battlemented walling with a 2-centred
moulded stone doorway leading to the rear courtyard with a rounded embattled
machiolated corner turret with an ornamental arrow slit.
Interior Very complete with stone Tudor style chimneypieces and co-eval joinery
including a stair with turned balusters and foliage - carved finials. Ground floor
front right has a coved plaster cornice with big buds and flowers in deep relief ;
plainer plaster cornice to ground floor front left.
The Tudor details extend to the stable block which has Tudor arches with pierced
quatrefoils over the loose boxes.
An unusually grand and complete example of relatively small Tudor style rectory.

Listing NGR: SS8705812334

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546042

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