THE OLD RECTORY

THE OLD RECTORY, THE WALK

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1046539
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY
Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY, THE WALK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1046539
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: THE OLD RECTORY
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD RECTORY, THE WALK

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD RECTORY, THE WALK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Islip
National Grid Reference:: SP 52731 13996

Details

ISLIP THE WALK SP5214, SP5213 (East side) 12/90, 13/90 The Old Rectory 26/11/51 GV II* Rectory, now house. 1689-90 for Dr. Robert South, Rector, restored 1807 for Dean Vincent, enlarged mid C19. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roof with ashlar gable stacks. Double-pile plan. 2 storeys plus attic. Garden front includes the original symmetrical 5-window front with chamfered rusticated quoins and keyblock arches (segmental at ground floor); windows all have 12-pane C18 sashes, and the glazed central door has a canopy on richly-carved console brackets. Double-span roof has a C19/C20 cornice, gable parapets, and has 2 hipped C18 roof dormers. The 2-storey, 2-window C19 range to left has segmental-arched sashes and a central glazed door. A lead downpipe to left of the main door has an elaborate hopperhead with a cartouche enclosing the inscription "RS/DD" above the date 1689. This is shown on a late C17 engraving, which also shows cross windows and 3 pedimented dormers. Left gable wall of main block has a large sundial on the parapet wall, linking the chimneys. Rear of main range now the entrance front, has a 3-window arrangement of segmental-arched leaded cross windows, the central window at half height over a low doorway; the doorway inserted into the right window opening has an old 6-panel door with console brackets to the canopy similar to those on the garden front; to left of the low doorway is a small oval window. The roof has a moulded wooden cornice, possibly original, and 3 hipped roof dormers. C19 single-bay extension to right. Short range projecting on left, and linking to the tithe barn range (q.v.) has a tall cross window and a doorway with a further similar canopy. Interior: broad late C17 dogleg stair, to first floor, with barleytwist balusters; secondary dogleg stairs, at either end of the spine passage, rise to attics with turned balusters and may be early C18. Oak bolection-mould panelling of dining room is probably early C20. 3 heavy 4-centre arched chamfered wooden doorframes in the cellar may have been re-used from an earlier building. The house was used by several Deans of Westminster who held the living in plurality. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.207; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.664).

Listing NGR: SP5273113996

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 243332
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 664
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 207

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.