Rectory

WIGGINTON MAIN STREET SP3833 (South side) 11/122 Rectory 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as the Rectory and Barn to north-west) GV II Rectory now house. c.1844 by John Pritchard of Oxford. Regular coursed ironstone rubble, C20 tile roof. 4 stone stacks: 2 ridge, 1 end and 1 lateral. L-plan. Tudor revival style. Garden front of 2 parts. Right part: 2 plus 1 storeys, 3 bays. Central French window. Gabled 2-storey bay window to right. Gabled bay to left has 6-light window to ground floor, 3-light window to first floor and 2-light to attic. 4-light window above door. Most windows stone mullioned with transoms, hood moulds, label stops, margin lights and stone relieving arches. Stone copings to gables. Left part: 1 plus 1 storeys. Central lateral stone stack. 4-light window to right; 3-light window to attic, both mullioned and transomed. Rear: Gabled porch has stone copings, shield and 4-centred doorway. The Rectory was built on the site of a glebe farmhouse of which it incorporates a part. Interior not inspected. (V.C.H. : Oxfordshire, Vol IX, p.160; Buildings of England : Oxfordshire, 1974, p.842).

Listing NGR: SP3895633318