The Old Rectory is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Parsonage house. 8 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- scarred-niche-poplar
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Parsonage house
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Priory Lane, Burford, OX18 4SG
- OS grid reference
- SP 250 123
- Coordinates
- 51.80941, -1.63763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a parsonage house built around 1680 to 1700, often attributed to Christopher Kempster. It features a freestone front and a hipped Cotswold stone roof, with a roughly T-shaped plan. This classic small Queen Anne house is two storeys high with an attic. The exterior includes chamfered quoins, a low plinth, a band above the ground floor, and a coved eaves cornice with a bed-mould. The front has two gabled dormers and one in each hip, with a window arrangement of 1:3:1, featuring sash windows that may be contemporary, with thick ovolo glazing bars set in moulded architraves with bracket cills. The central entrance has a pedimented doorcase with a pulvinated frieze and a six-panel flush door. There are two ashlar chimneys at the apex of the hips, each with cornices.
The rear wing may not be from the same period and could be slightly later. It has been altered to two storeys over a cellar, with two cross mullion windows and a large stepped ashlar stack to the east. The south side features four first-floor windows and a gabled dormer. Inside, the front range retains several original features, including two fireplaces, a shell-niche cupboard, and raised and fielded shutters in the southeast room. The rear contains a stairwell from around 1700 with heavy turned balusters, although the lower flight has been altered. The west end room, now divided, still has a box cornice.
Local climate
The Old Rectory receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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