Description

HOLWELL PIRTON ROAD
TL 1633 (East side)

9/22 The Old Rectory
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- II

Rectory house, now a private house. 1831 (dated shield plaque on W side)
for Rand's Charity Trust (shield plaque with 'R/F.1706' on chimney to
right of porch on N side, for Rand's [Charity] founded 1706). Lower
service extension on E in 1870s. Red brick now painted, stucco bays
lined as ashlar, elaborate stucco moulded Gothic ornament, crenelated
parapets, finials, chimney corbels, etc. Steep pitched roofs. A tall
2-storeys house entered from N and facing onto garden at W and S. An
early and unusually elaborate Gothic rectory house, with large casement
windows, shafted chimneys, projecting chimneys some on decorated
corbels, rectangular 2-storeys bay on S flanked by moulded finials,
2-storeys gabled N porch. Interior has Tudor arched openings to porch
and staircase, and main rooms grouped round a central lobby. Sold as a
private house 1959.

Listing NGR: TL1656833047

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26630564

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)