The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. Vicarage.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- pale-string-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Old Rectory, Steeple Barton
- OS grid reference
- SP 448 250
- Coordinates
- 51.92233, -1.34895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a vicarage, now a house, built in 1856 by S.S. Teulon. It features squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and a gabled artificial stone slate roof, along with lateral stone stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in the Domestic Gothic style, with a two-storey front.
The central porch showcases cusped woodwork and a canted roof, leading to a plank door with wrought-iron hinges set in a pointed chamfered doorway. Above the door, there is a shallow pointed-arched architrave with a one-light sash window, and two-light sashes are found in the left gable projection. The flush gable to the right has an external stack, while the double-gabled right side wall features similar windows and a canted bay window. To the left, there is a two-storey range with a half-hipped roof and a one-storey range with a stone end stack.
Inside, the rooms open from a hexagonal hall and have panelled doors. A dog-leg staircase with a pierced Gothic-style balustrade adds to the interior's character.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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