Listed Building record MDO14464 - The Old Rectory, Purse Caundle

A rectory, now a private house, built in the 17th century and re-fashioned and re-roofed in the 19th century. The building has walls of rubble-stone and clay-tile roofs, with gable-ends and front gable on front wing.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 236 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of two storeys and have rubble walls and thatched roofs. (3) The Old Rectory (69561763), 60 yds. N.W. of the church, is of the late 16th or early 17th century, with a late 17th or early 18th-century addition on the N. The roofs are stone-slated. The older range retains two stone mullioned windows.’

<2> Department of the Environment, 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Dorset (Parishes of Trent,Sandford Orcas,Over Compton,Nether Compton,Castleton,Oborne,Poyntington,Bradford Abbas,Clifton Maybank,Thornford,North Wootton, Haydon, Purse Caundle & Goathill) (Scheduling record). SDO16437.

<3> English Heritage, 2006, Listed buildings data disk (Digital archive). SDO12545.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887651 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 2 2021 12:29PM