Heyford House

Heyford House is a rectory, now a house, dating from 1731 with extensions and alterations in 1867 by Charles Buckeridge, incorporating elements of an earlier structure. It is constructed of coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings, with Stonesfield-slate and Welsh-slate roofs and stone stacks. The house follows a central-stair plan, with an added parallel range to the rear and a rebuilt cross-wing. The main front has two storeys and a single storey with an attic. The regular five-window front of the 18th-century range has a plinth and ashlar storey bands linked to projecting keyblocks framing the plain-architraved windows. Most windows contain 12-pane sashes, with the central ground-floor window having been converted from the original main entrance in the 19th century. A plain parapet returns around the hipped roof. The 19th-century range to the rear also has a hipped roof, and the garden front features large stone mullioned-and-transomed windows, including a canted bay window with a pierced quatrefoil parapet. The cross-wing, positioned to the left of the main range and on the site of a 16th or 17th-century house, is lower and has a stone-slate roof. It is in a similar mullioned style with parapets to the main gables and half dormers. A short projection to the left provides an open porch sheltering a large, re-used 16th-century plank door set within a moulded wooden Tudor-arched frame. Internally, most features and joinery are likely from the 19th century, although some chimney breasts and the bread oven in the cross-wing may be remnants of the demolished earlier range.