The Rectory in Newtown

Detached three-bay two-storey over basement Board of First Fruits glebe house, built 1806, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to centre ground floor, three-bay two-storey side elevations, and four-bay two-storey rear (south-east) elevation. In use as rectory, 1948-9. Renovated. Now in private residential use. Hipped slate roof (gabled to porch) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack on axis with ridge, decorative timber bargeboards to porch having remains of finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered quoined piers to corners. Square-headed window openings (round-headed window opening to porch) with cut-stone sills, ten-over-ten (basement), six-over-six (ground floor) and three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows (some possibly replacement with three-over-six timber sash window to porch having fanlight). Square-headed door opening with two cut-limestone steps having cast-iron bootscraper, and replacement timber panelled door. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds on a slightly elevated site with landscaped grounds to site.(ii) Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding with half-attic, post-1806, to east. Reroofed. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with no sills, and timber fittings.

A well-composed Classically-proportioned substantial house retaining the original composition attributes together with substantial quantities of the early fabric both to the exterior and to the interior, thereby contributing to the historic character of the locality. Positioned on a slightly elevated site the house forms a pleasant landmark in the outskirts of Thomastown. Having been sponsored by the Board of First Fruits (fl. c.1711-1833) the house remains of particular importance for the role as an ecclesiastical residence having associations with the nearby Church of Ireland church (12317019/KK-28-17-19).