The Old Rectory and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. Rectory, house. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory and Attached Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- secret-stone-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- Rectory, house
- Address
- The Old Rectory and Attached Outbuilding, Cassington, OX29 4SY
- OS grid reference
- SP 461 113
- Coordinates
- 51.79887, -1.33172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory, now a house, dates from the early 17th century and was enlarged around 1840. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled concrete tile roof with a brick end stack. The building has a two-unit plan and is two storeys high with an attic, presenting a two-window range on its double-gabled front. The windows include 20th-century casements and two-light wood-mullioned windows in the attic, while a segmental stone arch is found over a ground-floor window to the right, which is part of a wall that was rebuilt in the mid-19th century.
Behind the Old Rectory is a mid-19th century outbuilding, enclosed by a tall stone rubble wall with stone slate coping. There are two two-storey ranges at the rear, built of similar materials and dating from the early 19th century and around 1840. These include a cambered stone arch over a 19th-century four-panelled door with an overlight, and 8-pane sash windows with brick dressings on the left side wall, while the main door is located to the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Rectory and Attached Outbuilding sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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