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IoE Number:
33808
Location:
THE OLD RECTORY, THE CAUSEWAY (south side)
YATTON, NORTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
N/A
Date Photographed:
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Date listed:
11 October 1961
Date of last amendment:
20 January 1986
Grade
I
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YATTON C.P. THE CAUSEWAY (south side)
ST 46 NW
5/145 The Old Rectory (formerly listed as
Rectory Farm House)
11.lO.61
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Prebendal house, now 2 houses. Mid C15, with later alterations including mid
C19 rear wing now occupied separately. Rubble, rendered, limestone dressings,
slate roofs with ridge and gable stacks and raised coped verges; rear wing in
random rubble with slate roof and ridge stack. Irregular plan, hall with cross
wing to left, porch to right, off-centre rear stair tower. 2 storeys, front has
2 projecting wings with gable ends to front left, main range of 2 bays and
2-storey porch to right. Gable end to left has pointed arched door in hollow-
moulded surround, studded door with raised fillets and strap hinges, small single
cusped ogee light to right; next gable end has 2 stone mullion and transom
windows at ground floor, chamfered surround with C19 lights, 3-light stone
mullioned window at first floor to left of flue for gable stack, weathered
diagonal buttresses, inner side of wing has similar ground floor mullion and
transom window, blocked first floor single light with cusped ogee head and
quatrefoils in upper tracery; main range has 2 similar mullion and transom
windows at ground floor, blocked to right, similar window at first floor left
with original C15 tracery, cusped ogee heads to lights and quatrefoils; porch to
right has 4-centred arched doorway with jamb-shafts and hollow mouldings, inner
4-centred arched doorway has 4-centred arched head and roll and hollow mouldings,
stone benches to sides, 2-light transomed window at first floor, similar buttress
to left. Right return has small single storey addition, now garage; gable end
has battered walls. Left return has gable end of main range with cross wing
extending left and right; in centre, C20 4-centred arched opening for glazed
door, narrow single light to right and 2-light casement in stone surround to left,
first floor similar 2-light casement and smaller 2-light casement at attic in
plain stone surround; at first floor to left segmental-headed 2-light casement
with leaded lights, first floor right has C20 2-light casement in moulded stone
surround, buttresses left and right, crocketed stack to gable end. Rear has
4-centred arched moulded doorway to left (rear of porch) with French window set
in opening, 2 mullion and transom windows at ground floor, with plate-glass to
right, blocked to left with cusped tracery remaining, 2 similar windows at first
floor with tracery, blocked to right. Inner side of rear stair tower has
4-centred arched chamfered doorway, now glazed as window and first floor C19
2-light window with trefoil heads, buttress as on front. Attached 2-storey C19
rear wing has at right return two 16-pane sashes with segmental heads at ground
floor, porch with pitched roof and door with raised fillets, gabled dormer above
with 2-light casement with segmental head; rear gable end has C20 bow window at
ground floor and 2-light casement at first floor, single storey addition to right
with French window and multi-pane C20 window. Interior: front porch leads to
narrow entrance hall, rear door retained inside French window, studded with
raised fillets and strap hinges and segmental rere-arch, room in central range has
framed ceiling, 4 bays by 2, one bay now over entrance hall, moulded beams,
fireplace has depressed 4-centred arch, shafts to sides and cusped panels to rear,
moulded mantel; 4-centred arched opening to front of cross wing with panelled
cusped soffit and jamb-shafts. End room in main range has curved beam over
fireplace, pointed arched chamfered door to rear and former door to C19 wing.
At rear of main room, pointed arched opening to stair tower with panelled cusped
soffit and rere-arch, C19 replacement winder stair. At first floor, passage
runs from front to rear of house, door to front main room with heavy raised
fillets in 4-centred arched hollow-moulded surround, pointed segmental-headed
door at rear of passage; room to left has C18 panelled door in moulded surround,
fireplace with square head, shafts to sides, cornice, 4-centred arched doorway
with wave and hollow mouldings to chamber over porch. C20 stair to attic, roof
structure not fully visible, contains arched-braces, cambered collars, one row of
purlins and windbraces over main range. (Sources: Pevsner, N. : Buildings of
England : North Somerset and Bristol 1958).