A house fit for a king - as evidenced by the fact that Henry VIII deigned to stay when taken ill on a tour of his Surrey palaces in 1546.

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The Old Rectory was the earliest great house and probably the first brick house to be built in Wimbledon. It was built around 1500 as a parsonage in an area of farmland, before becoming Crown property when Henry VIII broke with Rome.

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It is a breathtaking understatement. Even in 1550 The Old Rectory was more mansion than a house. C&D Restoration were commissioned to use their specialist tradesman to carry out an extensive restoration in two phases.

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Phase 1 Works

• Lime rendering to the whole building, part flat and part rough cast including removal of all defective rendering back to the sub structure

• Dismantling and rebuilding of the Tudor chimney stacks and replacement of the ornate terracotta pots

• Replacement of brickwork and pointing

• Replacement of defective Bath stone (Stoke ground base bed) sections to dismantled chimney stacks

• Replacement of curved sections of stone turret (Red Mansfield ashlar stone and string courses)

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Phase 2 Works

• Manufacture and installation of new Bath stone front bay around the main dining room including rubble walling

• Full and half column installation (encasing a steel beam)

• Formation of two new tracery window surrounds to dining room

• Installation of gable copings to front and rear (extension)

• Formation of two new windows to the front of the extension

• Rear balcony terrace - new bay formed

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