Listed Building record MDO28462 - The Old Rectory, Winterborne Stickland

A house, formerly the rectory, built in 1685 and extended in 1768 and around the middle of the 19th century. The building has walls of banded brick and flint, and the roof is covered in tile and slate.

The Rectory is two-storeyed with attics; it has walls of banded brick and flint and it is roofed with tiles and slates. The original E-W range was built in 1685; A N.extension at the E.end of the range is of 1768 and S. extensions at the W.End of the range were built in two stages about the middle of the 19th century. <1-2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 306-307 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(2) THE RECTORY, 150 yds. S.E. of the church, is two-storied with attics; it has walls of banded brick and flint and it is roofed with tiles and slates. The original E.-W. range was built in 1685; a N. extension at the E. end of the range is of 1768 and S. extensions at the W. end of the range were built in two stages about the middle of the 19th century.

The exposed part of the N. front of the original range has a brick plinth and a three-course brick plat-band at first-floor level. The original windows are casements with wooden surrounds; that above the doorway has two lights and the others are of three lights. Above the plat-band, to the W. of the two-light first-floor window, is a stone panel (Plate 48) carved with the date 1685 and the arms of Clavering impaling West (in 1683 Robert Clavering, rector 1682-1735, married Honor, daughter of Richard West of Shillingstone), crest, a hand supporting a closed book. The 18th-century N. wing has a W. front of one bay with a three-light casement window in each storey; there is no plat-band, but a date-stone of 1768 is set at the level of the first floor. The gabled W. wall of the original range has recently been rebuilt; to the S. is the W. front of the 19th-century S. wing, with a stone porch with Doric pilasters and a pediment.’

<2> DOE (HHR), 1954, List of Buildings of Special Historic or Architectural Interest: Blandford Rural District, 22 (Scheduling record). SDO17701.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205787 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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