Description

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SO 8463
9/206

OMBERSLEY CP
MAIN ROAD
The Old Rectory

(Formerly listed as WORCESTER ROAD (east side) The Vicarage)

29.12.52

GV
II

Former Vicarage. Late C18 with mid-C19 alterations and additions. Brick on dressed sandstone plinth, hipped slate roof with two rear brick stacks. Three storeys with moulded eaves cornice to front and dentilled eaves cornice to sides and rear. Three bays. Front elevation: outer bays have canted two-storey bay windows, added in mid-C19; windows have gauged flat heads rendered to represent stone voussoirs with dropped keyblock except for first floor windows of canted bays; main two storeys have 12-pane sashes; second floor windows are six-pane sashes; central entrance has doorcase with open pediment and modillion detail, engaged Ionic columns, moulded architrave, part-glazed six-panelled door and barred, segmental fanlight.

Interior retains ceiling mouldings and open well staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail.

A C19 single storey wing with canted bay window adjoins to rear right. Above the entrance door and central first floor window are Sun Assurance fire insurance marks.

Listing NGR: SO8454163674

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26356239

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]