The Old Rectory, with Attached Garden Walls and Piers to South is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Rectory, house. 2 related planning applications.

The Old Rectory, with Attached Garden Walls and Piers to South

WRENN ID
last-wattle-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Type
Rectory, house
Address
The Old Rectory, with Attached Garden Walls and Piers to South, OX18 2PS
OS grid reference
SP 274 042
Coordinates
51.7361, -1.6044
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Rectory, now a house with attached garden walls and piers to the south, is a former rectory that is believed to date back to 1609, although it has been significantly altered and rebuilt in the late 18th century and early 19th century. The house features a limestone ashlar front facing south, while the rest is constructed from coursed rubble. It has a 20th-century concrete tile roof with stone gable copings. There is an ashlar chimney at the center and an external chimney to the right, with its shaft rebuilt in brick in the 20th century. The building is L-shaped, two storeys high with an attic, and has five irregular bays. It has a moulded plinth, with the first floor featuring boxed 3-pane sash windows. The ground floor includes two large tripartite sashes, one of which dates from around 1900, off-centre double half-glazed doors, and a 20th-century door with a rectangular fanlight to the left. An attic casement window is located in the left gable. The rear of the house has three gabled bays with sash windows on the first floor and 20th-century round windows flanking a 20th-century arched doorway. There is a 20th-century wooden Doric porch. A later wing extends to the right with a flat-roofed extension.

Attached to either side of the south front are early 19th-century garden walls, which extend approximately 25 meters to the south. The left wall is entirely made of brick, while the right wall is brick-faced on the garden side but backed with coursed rubble limestone. Both walls are constructed with brick laid in English garden wall bond, featuring courses of blue headers and red stretchers, and have flat stone coping. The end piers are made of ashlar with tented caps, and both walls have arched gateways.

Local climate

The Old Rectory, with Attached Garden Walls and Piers to South receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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