The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1989. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Rectory

WRENN ID
blind-cornice-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
4 May 1989
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

The Old Rectory is a former rectory, now a house, with a 17th-century core located in the southwest corner. It was extended in the 18th and early 19th centuries and extensively remodelled in 1857 by F.J.H. Francis of London. The building is constructed of coursed rubble limestone with dressed quoins, and has stone slate roofs with coped gables and moulded kneelers. It features dressed stone chimneys with groups of octagonal shafts, and is in a domestic Tudor style. The house is two storeys and has an attic.

The south front comprises two 17th-century bays to the left, a remodelled gabled cross wing of a later date to the right, and a taller parallel rear wing. There is another wing at right angles to the rear of the left bay. The windows are 2-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars, all as remodelled in 1857. The 17th-century bays have wooden lintels over the left windows, concrete lintels over the right windows, and stone lintels over the attic windows. The attic windows are set in full stone dormers of 1857, with gables. A half-glazed door, set into an original opening, is on the ground floor of the right bay; the lower door panels have raised roundels. There is a chimney in the centre of the 17th-century part. The later cross wing to the right is taller and slightly advanced, with a rectangular bay window to the ground floor, two cross windows to the first floor, a 2-light attic casement, and a cusped triangular tablet in the gable. The right side of the building has similar casements, along with a 19th-century half-glazed door set in a chamfered stone arch with a hoodmould. Early 19th-century sash windows are found at the rear.

Inside the 17th-century part, there is a fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and a depressed arch, and a stop-chamfered spine beam with run-out stops. The building is included for group value.

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