The Rectory, Ashdon (EHER 35462)

The Rectory was built around 1600, with 18th and 19th century alterations.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: The Rectory was built around 1600 but greatly altered in the 19th and 20th century (RCHM 7A). It is Grade II. <1> The Rectory is located 780 yards north-north-east of the church and is of two stores. The walls are of brick, and the roofs are covered with slate and tiles. It was built around 1600, on an L-shaped plan with the wings extending towards the south and west. There are extensive modern additions on the south side and at both ends. Some of the brickwork of the south wing is probably original, as is the greater part of the projecting chimney-stack at the east end. Inside the building, a room at the south end of the former south wing is lined with original panelling, and has a paralleled door and two cupboard doors; the overmantel, formerly in that room, now on the first floor, has terminal figures and a richly carved frieze and middle panel. Two other rooms on the ground floor have some panelling of around 1600, and at the head of the original staircase is a moulded rail with symmetrically turned balusters. Condition: Good, much altered. <2> See also: <3>