Description

WEYMOUTH

SY6683 LORTON LANE, Broadwey
873-1/8/434 (North side (off))
14/06/74 The Old Rectory, with Field Cottage
and Orchard Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
LORTON LANE, Broadwey
The Old Rectory including the
service wing to the north)

II

Rectory, with service wings as separate dwelling units.
c1811-1812 (RCHME). Main block in yellow brick, Flemish bond,
and low-pitched hipped slate roof; wings in rubble with slate
roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement, 3-windowed symmetrical
front; 4:12:4-pane tripartite sashes each side of 12-pane, all
to segmental brick heads and to a Portland stone sill band.
Ground floor has recessed panels under wide elliptical brick
arches containing tripartite openings, with 5-pane side-lights
and a pair of French doors under a transom light. The basement
has shallow tripartite sashes under stone lintels and the
stone sill from the ground floor French doors; the windows are
in small rectangular areas with railings on Portland stone
copings. Central pair of part-glazed doors in Doric pilasters,
with a transom, and a wide elliptical radial fanlight, on 1
step and with stone architrave and responds, with a yellow
brick flat-roofed porch with an arched front opening, on 3
steps. A Portland stone plinth, including to the porch. The
hipped roof has a flat eaves with modillions; stacks to either
gable, and to the rear eaves, to the left. The right return
has two 12-pane to the sill band above 2 deep 15-pane sashes,
and, to the right, within an area with railings as to the
front, a shallow tripartite sash. The left return is similar,
but with a flight of steps down to the basement with C20 door.
The service wings are separated by a very narrow courtyard. To
the right (E) is Field Cottage, in 2 storeys and 2 windows,
all paired sashes, 9-pane at first floor and 12-pane below, to
flat brick heads and brick jambs. The central C20 door, in a
small gabled porch is on 3 steps. The gable end has a yellow
brick stack, and 1 window. Field Cottage, facing W, has wide
12-pane sashes to first floor, but replacement lights to the
ground floor, and a C20 door on 5 concrete steps.
INTERIORS not inspected.
A handsome villa standing in generous grounds, now partly
built over by house developments.

Listing NGR: SY6688083157

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26435147

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  For the Record