Building record MDO13324 - The Old Rectory, Tarrant Hinton

A two-storey house designed by Benjamin Ferrey in 'Tudor' style, and built around 1850. The building has walls of red brick with patterns in blue brick, and a tiled roof. The top of a doorway of sixteenth-century date is re-used in the building.

The Old Rectory is of two storeys with attics, and has walls of red brick patterned with blue headers, ashlar dressings and a tiled roof. Designed by Benjamin Ferrey in the 'Tudor' style,
it probably dates from about 1850. Reset over an opening in the wall of the courtyard on the north is a 16th century stone door head with various inscriptions. <2>

The Rev. G Sealy dates it to 1836. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 93621103) The Old Rectory (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 98-99 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(4) The Old Rectory (93621103), of two storeys with attics, has walls of red brick patterened with blue headers, ashlar dressings, and tiled roofs. The house was designed by Benjamin Ferrey in the 'Tudor' style and dates probably from c. 1850. The S. front (Plate 74) is of three bays, with ground-floor windows of four mullioned and transomed square-headed lights with iron casements with geometrical glazing, first-floor windows of three untransomed lights, and gabled dormer windows of two lights. A weathered first-floor string-course is turned up, as a label, above the windows of the lower storey; the first-floor windows have separate labels. The gabled E. and W. walls of the S. range have ashlar coping above shaped kneelers, projecting chimney-stacks with weaterhed offsets and, at the apex, coupled diagonally-set brick flues. The main doorway, in the N.E. wing, has a moulded four-centred head with pierced spandrels in a square-headed surround, and continuous moulded jambs. Inside, the principal rooms have stone fireplace surrounds with moulded four-centred heads. Reset over an opening in the wall of a courtyard on the N. is a 16th-century four-centred stone door-head, with ogee and hollow-chamfered mouldings, and carved spandrels. One spandrel has a crowned shield-of-arms charged with three coronets and scrollwork with lettering EST; the other spandrel has similar scrollwork with VIRGO entwined in foliage. The inscription of Thomas Trotteswell/Weaver, recorded by Hutchins (I, 318), has gone.'

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 418 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210291 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 30 2024 10:45AM