Description

SK 16 SW SHEEN C.P. SHEEN

6/112
- The Old Rectory

GV II*

Former parsonage. Circa 1852 by William Butterfield. Coursed stone,
blue machine tile,half-hipped roof with crested ridge tiles; ridge
stacks. Asymmetric, essentially rectangular plan. Asymmetric high
Gothic entrance frontage of 5 windows,in two parts with 2-storey and
attic service block to left and 1 -storey and attic to right, bridged
by lower polygonal-fronted stair turret and steeply pitched roof,
clasping in return to right single-storey, buttressed, lean-to entrance
porch; massive stacks with battered flue heads, enhancing greater
height of left hand block. Two-light mullioned and labelled casement
windows to left, pent dormer; trefoil-headed lights to stairway and
labelled pairs of pointed-arch windows in square recesses to ground
floor right with small square lights to half storey over porch.
Garden front has projecting two-storey gabled bay corbelled out over
three-sided ground floor bay window; ranges of tall trefoil-headed
lights to ground floor. Interior: pine panelling to dado level in
main rooms;'simple fireplaces and some library shelving remain. Wrought
iron bell pull by entrance.

Listing NGR: SK1133361426

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531358

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)