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Summary

Site of the former rectory. It is described in the 17th and 18th centuries as being of stone and cob under a slate roof with a hall, a parlour and a kitchen together with several other rooms. It also had various outhouses of cob and thatch including a stable and an ox stall. The buildings are now all demolished, but the site of the parsonage is marked by a depression.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX59NW/18

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• VICARAGE (Built, XVI to XVII - 1501 AD (Between) to 1700 AD (Between))

Full description

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

Rectory depicted at the head of a driveway on the eastern edge of the landscaped grounds.

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Rectory shown within landscaped grounds to the east of St Mary's Church.

Bridgwater, W. R., 1976, Parsonage, Ashbury (Worksheet). SDV228892.

Glebe terrier - 1613, "One hall, one parlour, three chambers, two butteries, two studies, one barne, one kitchine, one stable, one shippen, one calves howse".
Glebe terrier - 1679 "One parlour, one hall, and two other little rooms, beeing all floored with earth, 4 chambers, two of them having been made by mee, one barne, one stable, one ox-stall which i have built, the walls being made of stone and mud".
Glebe terrier - 1727 "The parsonage house of Ashbury contains in it, one kitchen, one parlour, and four other little rooms, whose walls are made of stone, three chambers covered with tile, having been built at my own expense, one barn, one ox-stall, one stable, which i have likewise built, the walls being made of stone and mudd and thatched or covered with straw".
Glebe terrier - 1744-5 "The parsonage house of Ashbury is built for ye most part with stone and covered with slate, only a foot or two in ye top of ye walls is mud. It consists of ye following rooms, a parlour and hall, a cellar, and dairy all floored with stone and lime-ashes, and two lodging rooms. The outhouses - a barn and ox-stall, with two pigs houses, ye walls being made of stone and mud".
Site visited on 24th November 1976. All demolished, except the barn. A depression marks the site of the rectory (parsonage).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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