The Old Rectory, Plympton

The Old Rectory
The Old Rectory in 2016
Location within Devon
General information
Architectural style	Georgian
Address	9 Fore Street
Town or city	Plympton
Country	England
Coordinates	50°22′58″N 4°02′50″W / 50.3829°N 4.0473°W / 50.3829; -4.0473Coordinates: 50°22′58″N 4°02′50″W / 50.3829°N 4.0473°W / 50.3829; -4.0473
Technical details
Floor count	3 (including basement)

The Old Rectory is a grade II* listed townhouse in Plympton, Devon, England.^[1] It was listed on 23 April, 1952.^[2]

The building was formerly the rectory for the Church of St Maurice across the former marketplace immediately to the north.

Exterior[]

View from the castle

As revealed when the British archaeology television programme Time Team visited Plympton in 1998, today's building was installed around the earlier shell, leaving a one-foot gap between the two frontages. When the rebuild happened, around the turn of the 17th century, the road was raised to provide a grand entrance to the new front door and, in so doing, created a basement from the formerly ground-level main floor of the medieval house.^[3][4]

The main façade has seven sash windows on the first floor and six on the ground floor, with the door in the middle. All of the windows are original to the reconstructed house.^[2] Below each first-floor window are friezes.^[5]

The door is set back about two feet into the façade, atop three stone steps.^[5]

As of 2017, the building is painted salmon pink, with its trim painted white.^[5] It was previously painted cream, with white trim.^[3]

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