Description

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NETHER COMPTON
The Old Rectory
ST5917
1611-0/13/10001
II
House, formerly rectory. Circa 1820, extended circa 1860-70. Rendered stone and
Hamstone ashlar. Slate hipped roofs with deep eaves. Rendered axial stacks with bracketed
cornices. PLAN: Original early C19 house on left [west] has 2 principal front rooms, the
left amalgamated with the room behind and the stairhall to the rear centre and right,
originally with the main entrance on the right side and a service wing to the rear left. In
circa 1860-70 a large cross-wing was built on the right side containing a drawing room at
the front and at the back a billiard room and entrance hall with a rear doorway. In the C20
the rear service wing was demolished and a conservatory was added on the left side.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2:1 bay south front. The original 2-bay house on the left, the bays
break forward and have small gables with moulded bargeboards with pierced pendants,
20-pane French casements on ground floor and 16-pane sashes above; stringcourse at first
floor cill level. Circa 1860-70 wing on right with moulded stringcourse and eaves cornice,
moulded eared window architraves and canted bay window on ground floor; all sashes with
margin panes. 3-bay left [east] return with similar first floor windows and French windows
on ground floor with margin panes and moulded architraves, consoles and cornices.
Verandah at rear of east wing on timber posts and with glazed double doors; original house
on right, its rear elevation similar to that at front but with cross mullion-transom windows
with glazing bars and small C20 addition at centre of ground floor.
INTERIOR: C19 joinery intact. Early C19 open-well staircase with open string, shaped
tread ends, stick balusters and veneered mahogany handrail wreathed over curtail. Marble
chimneypieces, one in study with reeded architrave with roundels and cast-iron grate with
cable-mould architrave. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices. Hall has encaustic floor tiles with
Greek key pattern and guilloche border.

Listing NGR: ST5958317534

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542998

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record