Description

WHEATHILL

SO68SW Old Rectory
482-1/4/213

II

Rectory, now house. Late C18 and early C19. Rendered stone
facades partly with modillion eaves and plain deep eaves
elsewhere. Coursed stone rubble rear walls. Hipped slate roofs
with gables and parapets to extensions. Integral eaves stacks
with 2 projecting stone stacks at rear, all with brick shafts.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 3-window range of 6/6 sashes (one blind but
glazed), with central pair of plain 3-panelled glazed doors
with overlight covered by projecting flat-roofed porch. Porch
with corner pilasters, with large glazed lights and top lights
to front and sides. Porch door with glazed panel with
perimeter glazing and with fanlight with radial and festoon
glazing bars. Ground floor of main elevation has horizontal
rustication with string course at first floor. Left return
side: 2-storey, 3-window range, with the left bay advanced,
fitted with 6/6 sash windows at first floor, 4/4 full-height
sashes at ground floor with the left window having 2/2 side
lights. Right return side: single-window range with 6/6 sashes
under cambered heads, that at ground level with 2/2 sash side
lights. Stucco at first floor over stone rubble ground floor.
To left is late C19 projecting 2-storey, stucco and
parapet-walled bathroom extension. 2-storey service wing to
right has 3/6 sash at first floor and cambered-head 6/6 sash
below. Rear is single-window range of 3/6 sashes with stone
segmental lintels at both floors in centre, projecting stone
rubble stack to right, to left is masking projecting rear
2-storey stone service wing extension under slate roof.
INTERIOR: box shutters, deeply moulded skirtings, 6-panelled
doors with architraves, and some with panelled reveals,
generally complete. Original fireplaces mostly survive. Open
string staircase with thin turned balusters, 2 per tread.
Staircase dado with low-relief double bordered panelling.
Library at ground floor right with pilastered library shelving
with modillion cornice, and light bordered wall panelling.

Listing NGR: SO6191581949

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663615

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)