Description

SU 07 SW
9/159

COMPTON BASSETT
COMPTON BASSETT VILLAGE
The Old Rectory

GV
II
Former rectory, c1840, rendered with ashlar dressings and imitation stone slate roofs. Various diagonally shafted stacks. Two storeys and attic, Tudor style, with ashlar mullion windows and irregular plan. Coped gables and parapets. South front has advanced two-window section to left with ground floor two-light and three-light mullion-and-transom windows with hoodmoulds, first floor two-light to left, three-light with hoodmould to right and sill course, parapet to left and gable to right with attic single light. West end gable has large first floor oriel and is paired with gable-end of rear range. South front right has four-window range of two-light windows, mullion-and-transom below, the left two bays set in Tudor-arched two-bay loggia. Door in left bay. Upper windows have sill course and, over third window a low gable above parapet has shield with crozier carved. East end stack has Gothic panelled corbelled base. Irregular north front with projecting gable to left, large projecting centre gable, and range to right parallel to front range.

Listing NGR: SU0312871713

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26273428

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)