Description

SY 9978 LANGTON MATRAVERS HIGH STREET (North Side)

6/27 The Old Rectory (formerly listed
as The Rectory), with boundary
20.11.59 walls

GV II

Former rectory, now private house used partly as a residential home.
Original building C17, enlarged to north and east in C19. Original section
has rubble stone walls, stone slate roof, brick end stack. 2 storeys. On
garden front, ground floor has two 3-light and two 2-light stone mullioned
windows with hoodmoulds and sashes. First floor has 4 similar 2-light windows.
Right of this, an early - mid C19 2-storeyed extension, at higher level, with
rubble stone walls, stone slate roof, brick end stacks. This has, on ground
floor, a pair of French doors and one fixed window. First floor has one sash
window with centre glazing bar. Large, later C19, 2-storeyed extension on
north, forms entrance front. Rock-faced ashlar walls and slate roof. 2 stone
stacks rising from eaves. Panelled door and fanlight in segmental pointed
arch, with hoodmould. Ground floor has 3 sash windows with glazing bars under
stone lintols and relieving arches. First floor has 4 sash windows with glazing
bars. C20 single-storey stone extension at left end. Internally, original
section has large fireplace with bread oven, part built up. Rubble stone
boundary walls at front and side, with flat stone coping. RCHM Monument
5 (Dorset Vol II).

Listing NGR: SY9985678896

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26592240

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)