The Old Rectory and Attached Stable and Outhouse Ranges is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Rectory. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory and Attached Stable and Outhouse Ranges
- WRENN ID
- high-pediment-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- Rectory
- Address
- The Old Rectory and Attached Stable and Outhouse Ranges, Oxford Road, Middleton Stoney, OX25 4TE
- OS grid reference
- SP 535 232
- Coordinates
- 51.90559, -1.22318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory and attached stable and outhouse ranges is a rectory that has been converted into a house and stables, built in 1815 by Thomas Cundy. The structure features limestone ashlar, squared rubble, and some tile hanging, topped with Welsh-slate roofs and ashlar stacks. It is designed in an L-shape with service and subsidiary ranges and has two storeys.
The front of the building is irregular, with the main range on the right and a wing that projects to the extreme right. There is a two-storey crenellated porch at the angle of the main range. The gables have stepped parapets with triangular copings and projecting kneelers, and the stacks feature paired diagonal ashlar shafts. The windows are mostly 12-pane sash windows, with some blind windows, all having plain architraves and label moulds. The entrance has a four-centre arched porch leading to a four-panel door with a fanlight, and there is a similar window above it.
To the left, there is a lower double-gabled range that was likely added later, with the front tile-hung above a wooden arcade. The extreme left features a projecting wing of the rubble service range at the rear. The right side of the main range has a three-window elevation with a gabled projecting right bay that includes a wide four-centred archway at the ground floor. The garden front at the rear also has three windows and breaks back in the right bay, which contains a crenellated bay window at the ground floor. A four-window service range extends to the right of this bay and bears the date 1815 on its gable wall.
The interior retains original joinery and stairs. The subsidiary ranges attached to the left end of the house form a three-sided court, including an irregular single-storey range at the front with a wing returning forwards at the extreme left. At the rear, there is a stable range with a central pyramid-roofed two-storey section, featuring a two-window front of segmental-arched two-light casements that break forward from flanking lower sections with dormers and loft doors. The design is noted to have been based on a concept obtained by Lord Jersey in 1812 from Henry Hakewill.
Local climate
The Old Rectory and Attached Stable and Outhouse Ranges sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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