Listed Building record MDO9114 - The Old Rectory, Winterborne Zelston

A two-storey house, formerly the rectory, of 17th-century date but remodelled in the 19th century. The interior retains features of 17th and 18th-century date. The walls of the building are rendered, but appear to be mostly cob, and it has a modern slate roof.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 315 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(2) THE OLD RECTORY (89809773), 100 yds. N.W. of (1), is two storied and has rendered walls, mainly of cob, and modern slated roofs. The exterior was re-modelled in the 19th century but the interior retains 17th and 18th-century features.
Inside, on the ground floor, the room at the W. end of the range has deep, chamfered ceiling beams resting on moulded stone surround. At the N.E. corner of the room is a narrow squint window. The stairs in the adjacent passage are of the 17th-century and have close strings, square newel posts with ball finials, moulded hand-rails and heavy turned balusters. The partition between the stair passage and the adjacent room on the E. is of original timber-framing; the passage on the N. side of the same room is modern. The fireplace in this room has a chamfered wooden surround with a raised head; the ceiling beams are deeply chamfered; the walls are lined with 18th-century panelling in two heights. The E. staircase retains splat-balusters that are probably of the early 17th-century. The kitchen, to the E., has two cased ceiling beams and a large open fireplace with a timber bressummer. On the first floor, the W. room has a 17th-century fireplace with a moulded stone surround.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455813 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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