Description

TL 67 SE FRECKENHAM CHURCH LANE

3/23 The Old Rectory
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- II

House, formerly rectory. Mid C18 with rear range of late C16 and alterations
of 1830. Double-pile plan. C18 front range of 5 windows: 2 storeys with
attics. Gault brick with string at 1st floor. Plaintiled roofs with flat
lead-roofed casement dormers; end and rear chimneys of gault brick. Sash
windows with segmental heads of gauged brick, and small-pane sashes. 1-storey
C19 entrance porch of gault brick, flat-roofed with parapets. 2-panelled
entrance door with oblong fanlight having patterned glazing bars. The rear
range has a good timber-framed core of late C16, in the parlour are ovolo-
moulded 1st floor beams and other exposed framing; wind-braced clasped-purlin n
roof. The rear elevation is encased with gault brick and has good enrichment
of 1830 in the Gothick style; vigorously carved bargeboards and windows with
hood-mouldsand small-pane casements (the upper lights arched), 1-storey rear
entrance porch with hood-moulded and drop-traceried doorway; in the gable is a
diamond plaque containing the insignia of the Incumbent and the date 1830.

Listing NGR: TL6661571687

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26574973

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)