The Old Rectory

BURFORD AND UPTON PRIORY LANE AND SIGNET (North side) SP2512 (Enlargement) The Old Rectory 7/177 (Previously listed 12.9.55 under Upton and Signet C.P.)

GV II

Parsonage house. c.1680-1700, usually attributed to Christopher Kempster. Freestone front, hipped Cotswold stone roof. Roughly T-plan. Classic astylar small Queen Anne house. 2 storeys and attic. Chamfered quoins, low plinth, band over ground floor, coved eaves cornice with bed-mould. 2 gabled dormers to front and one in each hip. 1:3:1 windows with 2-window windows with 2-window return to south, sashes, perhaps contemporary, with thick ovolo glazing bars in moulded architraves with bracket cills. Central pedimented doorcase with pulvinated frieze, 6-(flush) panel door. 2 ashlar chimneys at apices of hips, with cornices. The rear wing may not be exactly contemporary, possibly a little later. Altered 2 storeys on cellar, 2:1 windows, cross mullion type, large stepped ashlar stack to East; to South, 4 windows on 1st floor and a gabled dormer. Interior retains several features. To the front range, 2 fireplaces, a shell-niche cupboard and raised and fielder shutters (in SE room). To rear a c.1700 stairwell with heavy turned balusters, lower flight altered; the West end room, now divided retains box cornice.

Listing NGR: SP2507912369