The Old Rectory is a

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Plympton Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient Stannary, stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down riv ...

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, England. It was listed on 23 April, 1952.THE RECTORY
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The building was formerly the

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for the Church of St Maurice across the former marketplace immediately to the north.

Exterior

Plympton St Maurice from the castle - geograph

As revealed when the British archaeology television programme ''

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'' 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.Season 6, Episode 5 (Plympton St Maurice, Devon)
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''Season 6, Episode 5 (Plympton St Maurice, Devon)
- ''Time Team'' The main façade has seven

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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. Below each first-floor window are

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s. The door is set back about two feet into the façade, atop three stone steps. As of 2017, the building was painted

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, with its trim painted white.9 Fore Street
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It was previously painted cream, with white trim.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Old Rectory, Plympton Georgian architecture in England Clergy houses in England Grade II* listed buildings in Devon Buildings and structures in Plympton, Devon