Survey Data
Reg No
22205910
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Templenoe House
Original Use
Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house
In Use As
House
Date
1775 - 1785
Coordinates
192580, 138573
Date Recorded
07/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached former rectory, built 1776-84, with attic storey and being three-bay two-storey over half-basement to front and five-bay three-storey to rear. Used as rectory until 1885, now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves and slightly projecting rendered end chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls, slate-hung to upper floors of rear rear elevation and rear part of gable elevations, having lozenge detail over first floor window. Square-headed diminishing window openings with timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows, decorative render surrounds and cut limestone sills. Round-headed window openings to central bay of upper floors of rear elevation, having timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows. Round-headed door opening to front with carved limestone block-and-start surround, timber spoked fanlight and timber panelled door, approached over basement area by flight of cut limestone steps with decorative cast-iron railings. Staircase visible to central bay of rear elevation. Yard to north with random rubble limestone boundary walls, accessed through segmental archway and pointed arched door opening with timber battened door. Outbuilding with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roof and painted roughcast rendered walls. Painted rendered castellated boundary walls with painted rendered piers and decorative cast-iron gates.
Appraisal
This attractive and impressive former rectory retains many interesting features indicative of an early date including projecting chimneystacks and widely-spaced openings. A sense of grandeur is articulated in some of the finer features such as the diminishing windows influenced by the Palladian style, and the imposing entrance group which comprises a flight of cut limestone steps, delicately spoked fanlight and finely carved limestone door surround. The original character and form of the building remains intact and the grouping of house, outbuildings and entrance forms a pleasant feature in the landscape.