Crossacres the Old Rectory
CROSSACRES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345422
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Crossacres the Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- CROSSACRES
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08161/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345422
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Crossacres the Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROSSACRES
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD RECTORY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CROSSACRES
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Selworthy
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 91874 46727
Details
SS9146 SELWORTHY CP SELWORTHY VILLAGE 26/110 Crossacres and The Old Rectory (formerly listed as 2 separate items) 22.5.69
GV II Rectory, now 2 private dwellings. C16 in origin, extensively altered late C19 and mid C20. Roughcast over rubble, setback buttresses west end and south-west corner, slate roofs, external stack west gable end, south gable, lateral stack east side. L-plan, parallel range of dairy east end, subsequently raised to 2 storeys, stair turret north east corner. Two storeys, 3:2 bays south front, left full height gabled bay, 3-light right, gabled 4-light beyond, all C20, gable front south end with 2-light ogee headed casement in place of earlier entrance to right of stack, raised dairy end, oriel window with ogee light, C20 door with side lights below, 4-bay west front, left return with ogee headed lights under hoodmoulds. Extensively altered internally and externally buttress only early feature now surviving, but early-mid C19 model at the Old Rectory shows house prior to alterations; entered on north front through full height gabled porch flanked by lateral stacks, 3-bay rear elevation, 3-bay south front, single storey dairy and stair turret on east elevation. A rare example of a vernacular house with a model surviving from previous century.
Listing NGR: SS9187946722
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265528
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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