Description

SK 97 SE BURTON CHURCH LANE

9/13 Old Rectory
30-11-66
G.V. II

Former rectory, now house. Late C17 with early C18 front and
later C18 alterations and additions. Red brick in Flemish bond;
the headers are slightly overburnt giving a chequered effect.
End wall is rendered and that to the rear catslide is of stone.
Plain tiled roof with stone coped raised gables and 3 brick gable
stacks. 2 storey with attics, 5 bay front with late C18 2 bay
with attic extension to left. First floor band and plain wooden
eaves board. Central 6 panelled door with fan traceried
overlight, wooden door surround with pilasters terminating in
carved brackets supporting a narrow dentillated cornice.
Pilasters have Adam style floral decoration. Door is flanked by
single canted bay windows with glazing bar sashes and flat lead
roofs. To first floor are 5 glazing bar sashes and in the roof
are 3 glazing bar sash dormers with lead cheeks and segmental
roofs. To right of the central first floor window is a metal
fire insurance plaque with Sun design. To the left, the
extension has a dentillated eaves course and an off centre flush
6 panelled door with to left a glazing bar sash and to the first
floor a single similar window. All 3 openings have segmental
heads, as does the leaded dormer. Interior has a dogleg
staircase with turned balusters, probably early C18. Alcoves
with semi-circular heads and keyblocks with fitted cupboards
beneath to either side of imported fireplace in right hand room.

Listing NGR: SK9614774556

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26317340

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)