Description

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TQ 71 NW BATTLE EATENDEN LANE

21/39 The Old Rectory

II

Former vicarage, now house. Dated 1859 in polychrome brickwork
on north west facade and built by Samuel Sanders Teulon who also
designed the adjoining church and school. Asymmetrical building
in Gothic Style in red brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings
and blue brick polychrome work. Tiled roof with bands of curved
tiles and 5 brick chimney stacks. North west or entrance front
is of 2 storeys with left side gable and pointed 2 light oriel
with lead roof and underneath an arched doorcase with corbel
heads and colonnettes. To the right of this is an arched
staircase window, stepped at the bottom with paired lancet window
underneath. To the extreme right is an external brick
chimneystack with stone arched feature with carved dragon's head.
To the north west is a link block of 2 storeys with right side
single arched mullioned and transomed windows and left side 1st
floor 2-light mullioned and transomed window and ground floor
triple mullioned and transomed window. To the extreme north west
is a service wing with the lettering AD 1859 and the initials VR
and PC picked out in polychrome brickwork. This wing has arched
windows. The first floor elevation has 2 gables, the left side
are larger than the right. Left side has triple mullioned and
transomed window to 1st floor and 3-light bay to ground floor.
To right is double mullioned and transomed window on both floors.
Corner has octagonal turret with arched windows, arched doorcase
and lead and metal finial. South west front has an external
chimneystack with polychrome decoration, large gable with triple
arched mullioned and transomed window, link block with dormer
with double mullioned and transomed window and ground floor 2
double arched windows. 1 storey lean-to service wing with diaper
and cross decoration in polychrome brickwork and arched doorcase.
Interior has oak staircase of Jacobean style with splat
balusters. There may be other internal features.
[see reference to architect of vicarage in leaflet on "The Church
of St John the Baptist, Wetherfield, East;Sussex" by Revd Canon
David D Fricker, 1990]

Listing NGR: TQ7250418680

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26563806

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