Description

TF 74 SW RINGSTEAD HIGH STREET
(west)

2/79 Old Rectory

- II

Former Rectory house. Dated 1643 on south gable. Coursed squared and rubble
carstone, red brick dressings, tiled roofs. 2 storey double pile plan. Front
pile to east with irregular C19 and C20 fenestration : ground floor with 2 2
straight headed 3-light casements and 2 arched headed casements of 2 and 3-
lights each. First floor 4 3-light casements, one large off-centre mid-C19
casement of 3-lights and 9 panes lighting the staircase. C20 door. All
openings with brick dressings, traces of blocked ground and first floor long
and low windows. South gable with mid-C19 brick quoins and 2 storey 3-sided
canted bow window with single light side lights and 3-light centre casements,
tiled roof. Stone coped gabled parapet with datestone "16 M43 H?C". North
gable with massive external stack with 3 main set offs stages, 2 mid-C19
octagonal stacks, gable with brick quoins, kneelers and stone coped parapet.
Main pile with axial cluster of mid Cl9 octagonal stacks, rear pile with
further ridge stacks.

Listing NGR: TF7062440733

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26346130

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)