Description

HORWOOD HORWOOD
SS 52 NW
4/64
The Old Parsonage
25.2.65
II
Former rectory, now private dwelling. Late C18 with C19 alterations. Stone
rubble, rendered facade, with brick dressings. Slate roof hipped at right end.
Brick stacks to each end and to rear wing.
Symmetrical central hall and staircase plan with principal room to each side,
kitchen/servant wing to rear right side, forming L-shape, and single storey
workshop, formerly washhouse and coal-sheds completing 4-sided rear courtyard plan.
2 storeys. 3-window range, symmetrical. C19/C20 2-light casements, 6-panes per
light with slightly cambered brick arches. Single 16-paned horned sash with
rendered slightly cambered brick arch flanking stone rubble porch with slate lean-
to roof. C20 inner door.
Interior: some early joinery survives including 4-panelled fielded panelled doors
to the principal rooms with original hinges, integral cupboards to each side of the
principal fireplace in the east principal room, old ledged plank doors to the
bedrooms. Dairy/cellar fittings partly intact. Late C18 roof structure of 4
trusses to front range and single truss to rear wing with side-pegged collars.

Listing NGR: SS5012027429

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595739

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