Description

ASHWATER ASHWATER SX 39 NE 3/19 The Old Rectory including garden - wall adjoining at rear II House, formerly rectory. Circa mid C17 core, C18 and C19 remodelling and additions, C20 renovations in progress at time of survey (1985). Rendered colourwashed cob and stone, slate roofs half-hipped at the ends of the main range, 2 projecting rendered end stacks to main range, 2 stone stacks to rear wings. Complex development. A circa mid C17 house of which 1 room survives on the ground floor left of the main range was remodelled in the early C18 as a 3-storey range with ambitious Venetian windows to the rear and some good quality C18 joinery. In the circa early C19 a crosswing was added to the right of the main range providing a new entrance into a stair hall. A rear left wing may have been part of the original C17 house and used as a service wing in the C18, it has been refenestrated with Gothic windows on the side, said to have been inserted in the early C20 and originating from a chapel. A rear left block in the angle between the rear wing and the main range runs parallel to the main range and has a roof hipped at the left end and a small crosswing. 2 and 3 storeys. 2:1 window main range with regular fenestration, the early C19 crosswing at the right is 2 storey gabled to the front with an idiosyncratic bell turret at the apex of the gable, a notable feature: it is in 2-tiers, corbels in the gable of the wing support fluted pilasters and a round-headed arch fixed to the wall below a 4 square-slated pentice. Above the pentice a pyramidal slated roof is carried on open round-headed timber arches. Central panelled front door in the crosswing with timber pilasters supporting a cornice and a first floor 16-pane sash, similar sash in the left return. To the left the main range is 3 storey with a ground floor 2-light casement, 8 panes per light. First and second floor windows are 16-pane sashes with an 8-pane stair window to the right on the second floor. 2 Venetian windows to the rear of the main range and the Gothic windows to the rear wing have replaced glazing bars although the apertures do not appear to have been altered. Interior Ground floor room left of the main range has a large fireplace with hollow-chamfered granite jambs and a replaced granite lintel. Various C18 panelled doors and doorframes survive. To the rear of the rear wing the remains of a circa early C19 picturesque garden feature survives consisting of a curved cob wall with a large rounded niche studded with small stones laid in patterns.

Listing NGR: SX3886295271

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