Listed Building record MDO10391 - The Old Rectory, Piddlehinton

Formerly Glebe Court. House, dated 1753. Banded brick and flint and banded flint and ashlar. Gable-ended, tiled roofs with stone-slate verges and end brick stacks.

The Rectory (SY 71459710) Piddlehinton, built of banded brick and flint with ashlar, is a two-storeyed structure with attics dated 1753; the keystone over the doorway is inscribed PM 1753'. An 18th century plan in the present rector's possession shows that the former rectory stood to the east of the present site; some of its walls are perhaps incorporated in outhouses to the east. <2>

Glebe Court, Piddlehinton, built as the rectory and dated 1753 on the south doorway. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, 1888 (Map). SDO10373.

(SY 71459711) Rectory (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 209 (Monograph). SDO136.

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 313 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454803 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 21 2023 11:45AM