Listed Building record MDO16925 - The Old Rectory and boundary walls, High Street, Langton Matravers

A house built in the seventeenth century, with nineteenth-century extensions. Formerly the rectory, and later a private house used partly as a residential home. The older part of the building has walls of stone rubble and a stone slate roof with brick chimney stack, and the later extension are of similar materials, though a large later-nineteenth century extension has rock-faced ashlar walls, a slate roof and stone chimney stacks. Surviving original features of the interior are reported to include a large fireplace with bread oven. There is also a single-storey twentieth-century extension.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘These monuments, unless otherwise described below, are small houses and cottages, generally of two storeys with rubble walls and stone-slated roofs, and of the late 18th or early 19th century. Some have a central entrance with a window to each side, but several of those in the village street are built on a narrow frontage with one ground-floor front window only. Buildings numbered on the village maps but for which there is no individual entry below are covered by this general description. … (5) THE RECTORY is mostly of the mid and late 19th century but incorporates a 17th-century building at the S.W. corner, which has been refronted and refenestrated at the later date.’

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Aug 23 2024 11:27AM