The Old Rectory

BRITWELL SU6793 8/19 The Old Rectory 18/07/63 (Formerly listed as The Old Rectory Britwell Salome)

GV II

Rectory, now house. C17, remodelled c.1670 by James Stopes and in early C18 for his son James Stopes. Flemish bond red brick with purple brick diaper patterns to side walls; old tile roof; brick stacks. T-plan with rear right range. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Segmental moulded hood over 6-panelled door in moulded architrave. Sashes to all windows with ground-floor gauged brick flat arches and flat brick arches above. Raised storey band: moulded cornice. 3 hipped dormers with C20 lights. Gabled roof; rear lateral and ridge stacks. Storey bands continued around 2-window range with leaded casements. C17 wing of three-window range to rear right is rendered to left and has square timber framing over C18 brick wall to right; gauged brick flat arch over C20 window, hipped dormer and gabled old tile roof with ridge stack. Interior: front range has early C18 doors in moulded architraves, timber-framed partitions to central passage: early C18 cornice and fireplace to left, mid C19 plaster ceiling to right: late C17 open-well stairs to rear right has turned balusters on closed string, ball-finial newel posts, pendentives and pilasters to dado. C17 two-unit lobby-entry range to rear has original chamfered doorways adjoining stack, chamfered and stopped beams, and barley-malting room with trap doors to rear. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.486; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VIII, p.44; Biddy O'Sullivan, The Two Britwells, (privately published), 1969, pp.21-2).

Listing NGR: SU6748793660