Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Rectory
Whitton, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 March 1992
- Community
- Whitton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.29891, -3.06975
- Cadw reference
- 9074
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Prominent roadside position in village centre, 90 yards north west of Whitton crossroads on the Llangunllo Road.
History
Late C18, rebuilt after fire in 1772.
Exterior
Two storeys and attic with 2 rear wings, coursed stone rubble, slate roof with crested ridge tiles. Two end stacks with rendered brick uppers and chevron oversailing course. Symmetrical garden front has tile hung upper storey rising to central dormer in cross gable with projecting bargeboards, finial and pendant. Flanking two-storey, early C20 bay windows with pantile roof over central front door supported on tapering wooden posts with scroll brackets. Rear wings - one stone rubble, one tile hung, both with projecting bargeboards, pendant and finial.
Late C19 rubble extension to north with louvred opening in gable upper and shuttered opening in roadside wall. Further rubble extension with hipped roof and modern casements and to the south a small rubble block with pitched roof also with shuttered opening to the roadside.
Detached stable/traphouse with loft over and adjoining pigsty and fuel store. Coursed rubble, slate roof, crested ridge. Backs on to road.
Interior
Interior not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as one of the few surviving older buildings in the centre of Whitton and in a prominent roadside location close to the Parish Church.
Nearby in the register
- Rectory OutbuildingDomesticunder 1 mi
- The SchoolhouseEducationunder 1 mi
- Church of St DavidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- U-Plan Farm Range (A) at Whitton CourtAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.