Description

ALDERTON WOODBRIDGE ROAD TM 34 SW (East Side) 10/10 The Old Rectory 16.3.66 II Former rectory, now house. Late C18. Built for the Revd. Richard Frank D.D. Red Flemish bond brick with plain tile roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: 3 bays symmetrically disposed. Central tripartite Greek revival doorway which has a central door of 6 panels, the lower 2 flush, the upper 4 raised and fielded, with a decorated fanlight above. To either side of this are Doric 1/2-columns which are fluted and baseless and support a correctly moulded entablature. Immediately to either side of these are sash windows of 2x4 panes. To either side of this central feature are sash windows of 3x4 panes with ashlar sills and flat-arched heads. To far left is a further sash window of later date having 2x4 panes. To the first floor are three windows with flat-arched heads and ashlar sills of 3x4 panes. Hipped roof above with recessed chimney stacks each of 3 flues. To left of this and slightly recessed is a C19 service wing of 3 bays with cambered heads to the windows. The Garden front is of 3 bays symmetrically disposed. Central semi-octagonal bay window with central doorway formed of an upper sash window of 3x4 panes and a lower 1/2-door. Similar sash windows to the canted angles at ground floor level and 3 similar to the the first floor of the bay which has a hipped roof above it. The lateral bays at ground and first floor levels are also all of 3x4 sash panes, the first floor windows being of less height. The right hand return has 4 bays with sash windows of 3x4 panes to both floors. To the first floor at extreme right is a further window of 2x4 panes. To right of this is a C19 lower 2- storey service wing with outshut at left and cambered-headed windows. The rear of the house has 2 central bays with sash windows of 3x4 panes to both floors at either side of which are the projecting C19 service wings. Blocked windows to either side at first floor level show that the front was formerly of 4 bays symmetrically arranged.

Interior: The staircase hall has an open-well staircase of 2 flights with a smaller flight between the 1/2-landings, moulded tread ends and stick balusters with slender moulded vase-on-octagon newels and a wreathed curtail to the handrail. Moulded tread-ends. Decorated cornice. From this hall leads a spinal corridor with groin vaulting resting on wall brackets. the drawing room has wall panels with moulded surrounds and a C20 ashlar chimney piece with Tudor arch. Similar chimney piece and moulded cornice and C18 chimney piece having fluted columns to either side with acanthus leaf capitals. Cabled fluting to the shafts and moulded bases with a fluted frieze and maidens with garlands to the lateral projecting panels of the frieze.

Listing NGR: TM3428841970

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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