Listed Building record MDO10299 - The Rectory, The Borough, Holwell

A rectory built in the early part of the 18th century. The building has walls covered in render with rusticated stone quoins, and a tiled roof with stone slate verges and brick chimney stacks. Surviving features are reported to include internal joinery features of mid-18th century date, including chimney pieces and overmantels.

The Rectory, early C18th. Rendered walls with rusticated quoins. <2> <3>

<1> 1921, Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 17, 8 (Mayor C H) (Serial). SDO17524.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 121 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(3) THE RECTORY (69931190), 100 yds. S. of the church, is an early 18th-century building of two storeys, with rendered walls and a hipped tiled roof with stone-slate verges. The eaves have moulded plaster coves. The windows are sashed. The S. façade has three bays, the central bay recessed; the N. side has five symmetrical bays. Inside, several rooms have carved wooden fireplace surrounds and overmantels and other mid 18th-century joinery of good quality. A reset stone in a 19th-century outbuilding is dated 1678.’

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 233 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1979 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 6993 1190) The Rectory (NAT)

<5> English Heritage, 2006, Listed buildings data disk (Digital archive). SDO12545.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887725 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 18 2022 12:52PM