Description

EAST ANSTEY EAST ANSTEY
SS 82 NE
2/11 The Old Rectory
-
- II

Former rectory. Probably late C18 or early C19, remodelled in mid C19. Painted
stuccoed stone rubble. Hipped slate roof with deep bracketted eaves. Rendered
stacks at each end and lateral stack to outer face of rear kitchen wing.
Plan: Principal room to eacn side of entrance hall, with principal staircase in
rear 2-storey outshut, butting onto kitchen wing to rear right side which has a
short gabled service wing extending at right angles to the right and enclosing the
stack. Brick lean-to at left end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. 3-window range, including central 2-storey porch.
Symmetrical. 16 paned sashes above French windows to left and 24 paned sash to
right of gabled 2-storey porch which has Gothic pointed arched sash window with
margin glazing bars above similar doorway with intersecting glazing bars to the
overlight and 6 panelled door. The upper 4 panels glazed .The porch appears to have
been added.
Interior: Chamfered cross ceiling beam to rear kitchen suggests older fabric may
have been incorporated in the late C18 or early C19 rebuilding. The 2 front
principal rooms have been altered in C20, but mid C19 joinery survives throughout.
Plain staircase with stick balusters. Principal bedrooms have panelled ceilings.

Listing NGR: SS8677826377

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26592781

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)