Listed Building: OLD RECTORY (106226)

CHESELBOURNE SY 79 NE 5/38 Old Rectory 26.1.56 GV II* Former rectory, now private house. Late C16, extended to east and north in early C19. Front refenestrated in C19. Knapped flint walls, banded with stone and brick, with ashlar quoins and dressings. Clay tile roofs with stone slate eaves courses, roof of the porch entirely stone slated. Rebuilt brick stacks on gable ends. Plan, original building, plain rectangle of 3 bays, original partitioning now doubtful. Staircase is in the north wing. Two storeys and attics. 3 windows and 2 windows. Ground floor has 3-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions, having wood casements with glazing bars, all late C19. First floor has 2-light mullions, original but reset. The extension in knapped flint and brick has 3-light casement to ground floor, with segmental brick arch over, and two 2-light casements over, with segmental brick heads. Central porch has a doorway with moulded jambs, 2-leaf flush panel door, with fanlight over with radiating glazing bars. North range, at centre, has brick and flint banded walls. Early C19 sashes with thin glazing bars. Wood cills, brick arches over. Original rear doorway is visible owing to its exposed label, C16. Interior: east wall of original building has stone fireplace with rectangular head and jambs outlined by a heavy roll-mould. The deep lintel has remains of painted decoration in dark red depicting fleurs-de-lis c1600. North jamb has blocked opening to an oven. West room has a fireplace with moulded jambs and square head, c1600. Stone lintel over a blocked opening in north wall, is carved with a shield, sun and green man face, c C17. (RCHM Dorset III, p77(3)) Listing NGR: SY7619799871

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