The Old Vicarage and Attached Walls, Gates and Gatepiers
THE OLD VICARAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATES AND GATEPIERS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046383
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage and Attached Walls, Gates and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATES AND GATEPIERS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046383
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage and Attached Walls, Gates and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VICARAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATES AND GATEPIERS, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATES AND GATEPIERS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Adderbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 47166 35371
Details
SP4735 ADDERBURY HIGH STREET (East side) Adderbury East 7/41 The Old Vicarage and attached 08/12/55 walls, gates and gatepiers (Formerly listed as The Old Vicarage)
GV II Vicarage, now house. Early C18 incorporating earlier features, altered and extended late C19. Marlstone ashlar and squared coursed rubble; Stonesfield-slate roof with ashlar stacks. L-plan with service range. 2 storeys plus attic. Left part of ashlar front has a symmetrical 5-window arrangement of tall 12-pane sashes, and has a central arched doorway in a stone Baroque surround with large imposts and a heavy double-stepped keyblock. Steep-pitched roof with 3 hipped roof dormers is hipped to left but extends to right over a wide blank section which has only one blind window at each floor. A lower C19 service range extends to left of main range. Right gable wall (with parapet), and principal windows at rear are C19 and have limestone dressings; rear wing, returning from hipped end, has also been extended in C19. Tall hipped-roofed stair tower, in angle of ranges, has early-C18 window openings matching those at the front, but the lowest window has a stone mullion, as has a cellar window in the rear wing. Interior: intersecting moulded beams in hall and a stop-chamfered door frame in the attic may be C17, and a chamfered Tudor-arched stone doorway in the cellars is C16/C17; early-C18 work includes a fine oak dogleg stair, rising to attics, with moulded closed string, turned balusters, and a newel of 4 clustered balusters. A first-floor room is lined with re-used C17 oak panelling, and there is a complete C18 panelled room at ground floor with a moulded cornice above fielded panelling. A fine C18 panelled cupboard, with a dentil cornice and concave sections breaking back from an arched central section, has been re-set in a first floor corridor. Heavy butt-purlin roof. In the cellar, a re-set medieval stone corbel of a muzzled dog. Marlstone garden walls, with flat stone copings, extend from right end of house approximately 25 metres along Mill Lane, ramping up twice and incorporating a Tudor-arched stone doorway, also across forecourt incorporating square ashlar gatepiers, with stone vase finials and wrought-iron gates, and extend approximately 20 metres to east of gates. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p416; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p11; Country Life: Vol 105, 1949, p86)
Listing NGR: SP4716635371
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243763
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 11
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974)
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 105, (1949), 86
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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