Description

TL 67 SE FRECKENHAM CHURCH LANE

3/23 The Old Rectory - - II

House, formerly rectory. Mid C18 with rear range of late C16 and alterations of 1830. Double-pile plan. C18 front range of 5 windows: 2 storeys with attics. Gault brick with string at 1st floor. Plaintiled roofs with flat lead-roofed casement dormers; end and rear chimneys of gault brick. Sash windows with segmental heads of gauged brick, and small-pane sashes. 1-storey C19 entrance porch of gault brick, flat-roofed with parapets. 2-panelled entrance door with oblong fanlight having patterned glazing bars. The rear range has a good timber-framed core of late C16, in the parlour are ovolo- moulded 1st floor beams and other exposed framing; wind-braced clasped-purlin n roof. The rear elevation is encased with gault brick and has good enrichment of 1830 in the Gothick style; vigorously carved bargeboards and windows with hood-mouldsand small-pane casements (the upper lights arched), 1-storey rear entrance porch with hood-moulded and drop-traceried doorway; in the gable is a diamond plaque containing the insignia of the Incumbent and the date 1830.

Listing NGR: TL6661571687

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings