The Old Vicarage And Attached Walls, Gates And Gatepiers

SP4735 ADDERBURY HIGH STREET (East side) Adderbury East 7/41 The Old Vicarage and attached 08/12/55 walls, gates and gatepiers (Formerly listed as The Old Vicarage)

GV II Vicarage, now house. Early C18 incorporating earlier features, altered and extended late C19. Marlstone ashlar and squared coursed rubble; Stonesfield-slate roof with ashlar stacks. L-plan with service range. 2 storeys plus attic. Left part of ashlar front has a symmetrical 5-window arrangement of tall 12-pane sashes, and has a central arched doorway in a stone Baroque surround with large imposts and a heavy double-stepped keyblock. Steep-pitched roof with 3 hipped roof dormers is hipped to left but extends to right over a wide blank section which has only one blind window at each floor. A lower C19 service range extends to left of main range. Right gable wall (with parapet), and principal windows at rear are C19 and have limestone dressings; rear wing, returning from hipped end, has also been extended in C19. Tall hipped-roofed stair tower, in angle of ranges, has early-C18 window openings matching those at the front, but the lowest window has a stone mullion, as has a cellar window in the rear wing. Interior: intersecting moulded beams in hall and a stop-chamfered door frame in the attic may be C17, and a chamfered Tudor-arched stone doorway in the cellars is C16/C17; early-C18 work includes a fine oak dogleg stair, rising to attics, with moulded closed string, turned balusters, and a newel of 4 clustered balusters. A first-floor room is lined with re-used C17 oak panelling, and there is a complete C18 panelled room at ground floor with a moulded cornice above fielded panelling. A fine C18 panelled cupboard, with a dentil cornice and concave sections breaking back from an arched central section, has been re-set in a first floor corridor. Heavy butt-purlin roof. In the cellar, a re-set medieval stone corbel of a muzzled dog. Marlstone garden walls, with flat stone copings, extend from right end of house approximately 25 metres along Mill Lane, ramping up twice and incorporating a Tudor-arched stone doorway, also across forecourt incorporating square ashlar gatepiers, with stone vase finials and wrought-iron gates, and extend approximately 20 metres to east of gates. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p416; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p11; Country Life: Vol 105, 1949, p86)

Listing NGR: SP4716635371