Description

POLTIMORE

429/5/168 POLTIMORE
20-MAY-85 THE OLD RECTORY

II
SX 99 NE POLTIMORE POLTIMORE

5/168 The Old Rectory
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- II

House, formerly the Rectory. Early C19. Brick, rendered, under slate hipped
roof, tumerised, with brick stacks. Main range with outbuildings to left-hand
side both 2 storeys. Front: symmetrical, 3 bays, the middle narrower and
recessed, all under overhanging eaves on shaped brackets. Panelled pilaster
quoins to all corners. Central door panelled with panelled architrave and
lattice barred rectangular fanlight; upper windows, hornless sashes, 8 panes per
sash to outer windows, 6 panes to central window; ground-floor windows, with 8
panes above, 12 below. Three 6-pane hornless sash windows to separately roofed
block to left. All sashes are original. A high rendered wall swept from corner of main block hides the appurtenances from the garden. The Old Rectory is very similar in design to Bampfylde House (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SX9673296962

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26398194

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock