Description

TG 12 SW BOOTON THE STREET
(south side)
4/11
The Old Rectory.

GV II

Rectory, now a private house. Designed by Thomas Allom for the Reverend
Whitwell Elwin c.1860 in the Jacobean style. Red brick with limestone
dressings, steeply-pitched plain-tiled roofs with crested ridges. Two storeys
and attics. Two and three-light mullion and transom windows set in chamfered
stone surrounds. Plain stone string course at first floor level. Canted
bay window on east side with pierced stone balustrade. Shaped gables with
stone kneelers, coping and ball finials. Stone modillion eaves course.
Chimney stacks with double and triple shafts with moulded caps and bases.
Semi-circular headed attic windows in gables with keystones and imposts.
Entrance loggia between cross-wings on north side with three three-centred
arches with keystones and pierced stonework balustrade. One-storey service
wing to west with parapetted gable and moulded brick chimney stack. Good
stained glass roundels in some ground floor windows at south-east corner.

Listing NGR: TG1222922344

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462260

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)