Description

TL 4113
8/1

HUNSDON
ACORN STREET
(west side)
Hunsdon village
The Old Rectory

II

House, sometime a rectory, C18, extended in later 1840s when it
became the rectory. Whitewashed brick. 2 storeys. 3 window
block with a hipped slate roof; long sash windows in rectangular
frames with sills. Stucco band between storeys. Boxed eaves.
Another 3-window block projects forward on the right; 5 old sash
windows and 1 modern casement, all of horizontal proportions
under segmental arches and with sills. Boxed eaves and projecting
chimneystack. Covered passage from door in internal angle
between blocks to street door set in pilastered brick doorway in
a curved brick wall. An elegant early Victorian rectory formed
by the extension of an L-shaped C18 house when the former
rectory became Hunsdonbury in the late 1840s.

Listing NGR: TL4180213889

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26631115

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)