Description

REEDNESS MAIN STREET
SE 82 SW
(south side)
6/39 The Old Parsonage
GV II
Parsonage and school, now house. Mid-late C18 with early C19 and C20
alterations. Brick with pantile roof. L-shaped on plan: 2-room central
entrance-hall north front with double-depth section to right. 2 storeys
with attic, 3 bays; symmetrical. C20 flat-roofed glazed porch over original
C18 six-fielded-panel door and 3-pane overlight in reveal. C20 casements in
original segmental-arched openings with sills. Wooden modillion eaves
cornice. Double-span roof; stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers. End
stacks, that to left rebuilt. Right return has French window in architrave
with blind box, C19 4-pane sashes to ground and first floors and two 12-pane
attic sliding sashes. Interior. C18 open well staircase with ornate carved
scrolled brackets and C20 rebuilt balustrade, ramped moulded dado rail; C18
chimney-piece to first floor left with eared architrave, pulvinated frieze
bearing bay leaf ornament, and moulded cornice; sections of C18 fielded
panelled to first floor right and re-set in kitchen; ground floor left has
early C19 reeded wooden cornice, and chimney-piece with reeded surround and
free-standing columns supporting mantelshelf; reeded wooden cornice to
ground floor right; 6-fielded-panel doors in architraves and fielded panel
reveals, those to ground-floor front rooms with applied beading, and some
with L-hinges. Pegged staggered butt-purlin roof. Upper hall bears traces
of imitation marble blockwork wall painting. Attic contains a series of
small rooms formerly used by schoolchildren.

Listing NGR: SE8022722900

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26397346

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: 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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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)