Description

SJ 30 NE PONTESBURY C.P. BROOKSIDE

3/167 The Old Rectory
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GV II

Former rectory, now house. Probably late C16 or C17, re-modelled c.1767 with
later additions and alterations, principally of mid-C19. Timber framed, now
encased in uncoursed limestone rubble (datestone 1767 to gable of cross-wing)
with red brick dressings; machine tile and slate roofs. Hall and cross-
wing plan extended and altered. 2 storeys; hall probably of 2 1/2 framed bays
and flush cross-wing of one bay; windows all mid-C19 casements with cambered
heads, one-window range to cross-wing (upper now blocked), one to right of
entrance, which has a bracketed gabled hood over a 6-panel mid-C19 door (upper
panels now glazed), with a further rectangular casement above; external red
brick stack against rear gable of cross-wing (which has timber frame exposed)
and another stack (re-built in mid-C20 brick) in roof slope to left, also to
rear. Partly timber framed outshut under catslide roof. The former parsonage
of the rector of the third portion of Pontesbury parish. V.C.H. VIII (1968),
p.252.

Listing NGR: SJ3987705949

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26648269

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)