Listed Building record MDO27076 - The Old Rectory, Ashmore

An early 18th-century house with 18th and 19th-century alterations. The walls of the building are of chequered greensand and flint with ashlar dressings, and it has a gabled tiled roof with brick chimney stacks at each end.

(ST 91301774) Rectory (NAT). <2>

The Old Rectory, an early 18th century building of two storeys, has tiled roofs and walls of flint and rubble with ashlar dressings. The North front is symmetrical and of five bays. <1, 3>

(ST 91301774) The Old Rectory (NAT). <4>

<1> DOE (HHR), Oct 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Shaftesbury RD, 2 (Scheduling record). SDO17584.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1963 (Map). SDO18658.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 2 (3) Photo (Monograph). SDO99.

(3) Old Rectory (91301774), of two storeys, has walls of flint and rubble with ashlar dressings, and tiled roofs; it is of early 18th-century origin, with later enlargements and alterations. The N. front is symmetrical and of five bays; in the lower story an original doorway is flanked by coupled sashed windows of c. 1870, with chamfered jambs and segmental heads; in the upper storey are corresponding square-headed sashed windows. The doorway has a moulded stone architrave and a segmental broken pediment on scroll consoles. Inside, the plan is of class T. The staircase and chimneypieces are of c. 1870 or later, except for a chimneypiece of c. 1750 which has recently been brought from elsewhere.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1981 (Map). SWX1197.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209993 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 3 2023 3:39PM