The Old Rectory, Halton House And Attached Walls And Piers

CHARLTON ON OTMOOR MAIN STREET SP5615 (South side) 11/17 The Old Rectory, Halton House 26/11/51 and attached walls and piers (Formerly listed as Rectory) GV II Rectory, now 2 houses. 1689 for Dr. Halton; altered and enlarged c.1805 for Revd. John Knipe. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. L-plan, much extended. 2 storeys plus attic. Architectural front, facing garden, has a 2-storey service range projecting from extreme left of the C17 section; to extreme right is a regular 5-window section with 12-pane sashes above tall casements and, its central bay, a tripartite sash above an added stone porch, (dated 1856), with pilasters and a cornice; earliest section retains, at first floor, three 2-light stone-mullioned windows with Classical architraves and moulded sills, and at ground floor has a blocked doorway between 3-light mullioned windows, the right window complete with 2 early casements, the left window without its mullions and containing a later 4-light casement. Rear and left gable wall of C17 section have further stone-mullioned windows of one and 2 lights, fitted with sashes and all with damaged architraves; gable shows original roofline, raised to align with roof of later section. Rear of later range has a double-gabled rear wing with an arched stair window, and a projecting porch containing a panelled door in a stone-architraved doorway framed by Tuscan pilasters and a large triangular pediment. Interior: earlier range has stop-chamfered cross beams, a winder stair, and some old doors. Stone-coped rubble walls approximately 2.5 metres high extend between ashlar piers, approximately 40 metres to east and 15 metres to west of the porch, returning down Otmoor Lane for approximately 35 metres. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.IV, p.81; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.530 and 936).

Listing NGR: SP5626415822