Description

LOVINGTON CP
ST53SE

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The Old Rectory
24.3.61
- 11
Detached cottage. Cl6 and later. Local grey lias stone roughly cut and squared; thatched roof between coped qables;
brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. L-plan. Single storey with attics, 3 bays. Horizontal bar casement windows
of 2 and 3 lights of several types, under exposed timber lintols; to upper bay 2 a window cut into thatch: between bays
2 and 3 a plain boarded door with glazed toplight under timber lintol. Interior not seen, but reported is a
cross-passage plan: internal features noted include chamfered beams with shallow step and runouts, with 4-panel ceiling
in west room, the central transverse beam ovolo-moulded; an in-and-out plank partition to the hall, with bead mould,
and also a stud and plank partition: two first floor rooms have small ribbed plaster cornice; spiral staircase near
rear hall door: rear wing has ovolo mould doorway with cambered arch, and former oven to north gable: roof has three
jointed cruck trusses, blackened, with one windbrace in situ; and C17 collar beam trusses over parlour and return wing.
(VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1977).

Listing NGR: ST5920831764

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26629714

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)