Description

SO 91 SE ELKSTONE ELKSTONE VILLAGE

3/123 Old Rectory
(previously listed as Rectory)
4.6.52
II

Former rectory, now large country house. Early C18; back partly
rebuilt 1847 by Francis Niblett; late C20 loggia. Limestone
ashlar; imitation ashlar render to loggia; concrete interlocking
tile roof. 3-storey with cellar; double pile. Front of 3
storeys and 5 windows with central projecting single-storey porch;
all windows are round headed and all have original early C18 9-pane
sashes, the upper leaf of each with round head; rusticated
architraves with keystone linked to plain band above; keystones to
top floor windows link with modillion eaves cornice; spaced
rusticated quoins to match windows; porch doorway is round-headed
with plain architraves, keystone and imposts; 6-panel fielded door
with fanlight over to match windows; rusticated Tuscan pilasters;
very small round-headed 2-pane sashes with matching architraves to
sides of porch. Ashlar chimneys with unmoulded caps at back of
front range. Back range projects beyond front at north end;
parapet gables to both side elevations, those to back range having
ridge-mounted ashlar chimney stacks with unmoulded caps; at south
end of back range a 4-light recessed chamfered mullioned window
with hoodmould to cellar, presumably a survival from earlier house.
Back elevation of 3 storeys and 5 windows, the outer windows being
2-storey rectangular bays with tripartite window to each floor and
C19 sashes; three 9-pane sashes with plain architraves and one 6-
pane to top floor; 2 sashes to middle floor; projecting
rectangular loggia to ground floor has moulded cornice to parapet
roof and plain central opening flanked by unglazed window openings;
reached by flight of steps; 9-pane sashes to cellar.
Interior remodelled in C19. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The
Cotswolds, 1979.)

Listing NGR: SO9676612309

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26592123

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)