Description

ST 58 SE ALMONDSBURY BERWICK LANE (north side)

11/5 Compton Greenfield The Rectory and attached garden wall and entrance piers

- II

Rectory, now house. C17 with front remodelled c.1750 and extended C19 and C20. Random rubble, rendered at front, ashlar coped verges and kneelers to pantiled roof. 2 storeys and 3 windows, all sashes, in exposed boxes, central panelled and glass door under flat timber hood, coved timber cornice, C20 single storey extension to left with pitched roof, cellars under part of house, 2-span roof raised in the centre to form small upper sashes of 4 panes, rear of main block has 3 windows at 1st floor, all with timber lintels, central one a sash, but outer ones casements, single 3-light to left, pair of 2-lights to right with central mullion, timber gutters. Interior: central open-string, open-well stair to 1st floor with plain gadrooned and knopped balusters and handrail swept in a curve at the bottom, balustrade carried round open well and 1st floor landing. Some windows have shutters remaining. Kitchen has stone fireplace with Tudor arch and chamfered edges, 1st floor front right has stone fireplace with basket arch and C19 hobgrate. Attached random rubble garden walls with red brick coping, entrance piers with ball finials, no gates.

Listing NGR: ST5683481932

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  For the Record
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings