Number 168 (The Old Parsonage) And Attached Wall

FREELAND WROSLYN ROAD SP41SW (West side) 10/88 No.168 (The Old Parsonage) and 12/09/73 attached wall GV II Parsonage, now part of Convent of St. Clare. 1869-71, by J.L. Pearson. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and bands; half-hipped plain-tile roof; stone ashlar stack to left. Double-depth plan. Gothic Arts and Crafts style. One storey and attic; 5-window range, with 2 asymmetrical gabled bays to left. Studded door with wrought-iron fittings set in double-chamfered pointed-arched archway. 3 offset buttresses to bay divisions. Tympanum arches over 2-and 3-light transomed plate-tracery windows, with quatrefoil carvings in each spandrel; 3-light stone-mullioned window above door, and gabled half-dormer with similar wood-mullioned and transomed window to right. Remodelled roughcast block to right. Half-timbering and stone-mullioned and transomed windows to rear. One-storey gallery connected to Church of St. Mary (q.v.) on left. Interior: wood-framed dog-leg staircase. Subsidiary features: approximately 5 metres of limestone rubble wall with pointed arched doorway runs to Old Schoolhouse (q.v.) on right. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p607)

Listing NGR: SP4137212722