Listed Building record MDO8957 - Old Rectory, Milton Abbas

House, formerly the vicarage, built in about 1780, probably by Sir William Chambers. It has plastered walls, a hipped stone slate roof with brick stacks in the centre of roof.

THE VICARAGE (ST 8034170), is of two storeys with dormer windowed attics and has rendered walls, probably of cob, and stone-slated roofs; it was built in c. 1780. The symmetrical five-bay S. front has, on the ground floor, a central doorway flanked by paris of sashed windows and above, corresponding windows on either side of a large central fanlight; the fanlight and the doorway are setin a shallow round-headed recess. The W. front is of two bays. <1,2>

The Old Rectory, formerly listed as the Vicarage, Grade 2*. <3,4>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 198 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(9) The Vicarage (80340170), 350 yds. W. of (2), is of two storeys with dormer-windowed attics and has rendered walls, probably of cob, and stone-slated roofs; it was built in c. 1780. The symmetrical five-bay S. front (Plate 55) has, on the ground floor, a central doorway flanked by pairs of sashed windows and, above, corresponding windows on either side of a large central fanlight; the fanlight and the doorway are set in a shallow round-headed recess. The W. front is of two bays with sashed windows, as before; one of the windows has been extended to the floor to make a french window. Inside, the hall is spanned by an elliptical arch; the stairs have open strings, a plain balustrade and a moulded handrail.’

<2> DOE (HHR), 1954, List of Buildings of Special Historic or Architectural Interest: Blandford Rural District, 10 (Scheduling record). SDO17701.

<3> DOE (HHR), List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset, 39 (Scheduling record). SDO17666.

Oct 1985

<4> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 294 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205810 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 18 2022 10:49AM