Listed Building record MDO9171 - Old Rectory, Cheselbourne

Former rectory, now private house. Built in the late sixteenth century, extended to east and north in the earlynineteenth century. Knapped flint walls, banded with stone and brick, with ashlar quoins and dressings. Clay tile roofs with stone slate eaves courses. Two storeys and attics.

The Old Rectory at Cheselbourne SY 76209987 300 yds. N. of the church, is two-storied and has walls of knapped flint banded with stone and brick, with ashlar quoins and dressings. The tiled roofs have stone-slate verges and the roof of the porch is entirely stone-slated. The original building, of the late 16th or early 17th century. had a plain rectangular plan of three bays, in which the central doorway led to a through-passage with one room on each side. About 1800 the original range was extended E., and a N. wing was added; the stairs are in the N. wing. Later in the 19th century a semi-octagonal two-storied porch with a hipped roof was built in the middle of the S. front, and at the same time the whole house was restored and the upper storey was largely rebuilt. <2>

National Record of the Historic Environment, 454594 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 76209987) Rectory (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 77 (Monograph). SDO146.

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Sep 22 2023 9:12AM