Description

ST 3400 HAWKCHURCH HAWKCHURCH
20/297
The Old Rectory
GV
II

Former rectory. 1859 by John Hicks to whom Thomas Hardy was apprenticed. Large
Victorian Gothic rectory. Stone rubble with freestone dressings. Steeply pitched
plain tile roof with gables. Asymmetrical plan with gabled elevations. Two storeys
and attics with large gabled dormers. Windows are groups of cusped lancets. One
south-west side a two storeyed stone bay with similar lancets. Heavily moulded two
centred arch doorway with altered bay window (formerly a large timber framed gable)
above on massive stone corbels. Large stone chimney stacks with set offs, one on
north-east side with octagonal shafts. Interior: Small stone Gothic chimneypieces.
A plan of the house is drawn in Thomas Hardy's anotated sketch book, with the words
"Hawkchurch Rectory (Rector delighted with its convenience)" ref: The Architectural
Notebook of Thomas Hardy.

Listing NGR: ST3431100480

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618314

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