The Old Rectory and Attached Wall
THE OLD RECTORY AND ATTACHED WALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046833
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY AND ATTACHED WALL
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- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/11123/09
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046833
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY AND ATTACHED WALL
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 RECTORY AND ATTACHED WALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shenington with Alkerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 37745 42892
Details
SHENINGTON WITH ALKERTON ALKERTON SP 3642-3742 7/52 The Old Rectory and attached wall GV II* Rectory, now house. Built in 1625 for Thomas Lidyat, chronologer and cosmographer to Henry Prince of Wales. Short rear wing added in 1748. Alterations and additions to rear in 1946 and 1973. Squared, coursed ironstone. Steeply pitched stone slate roof laid to diminishing courses. Stone coped gables with moulded kneelers. Large, partly renewed, diagonally-set stone ridge stacks on stone bases and twin-shafted end stacks. 2-unit plan extended to L-plan by the addition of later kitchen wing. 2 storeys plus attic. 4-window range. Front elevation. Ground floor has a blocked doorway and two 3-light and a 2-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. Similar windows to first floor plus a small rectangular stone framed window. Windows have lead cames and wrought-iron casement fasteners. Ironstone quoins. Chamfered stone plinth. Rear. Entrance off-centre to left has a cambered arched head with hood mould and lozenge shaped label stops. Original oak plank door. Ground and first floor both have 3-light cavetto stone mullioned windows on right. 3 rectangular stone framed windows with hood moulds and label stops at irregular heights mark position of original staircase now existing only from first floor to attic. Lower wing has 2-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. Interior. Original plan of hall and parlour separated by central double fireplace. Each room approximately 17 feet square. Moulded spine beams with stop-chamfers. Moulded stone fireplace in parlour dated 1625 in spandrels. Hall has large fireplace with arched stone head and a bread oven over 4 feet in diameter. Fireplace in bedroom over parlour has moulded jambs and Tudor arch. Early C18 fireplace and bread oven in kitchen. Later staircase leads from hall. C17 stair survives from first floor to attic. Purlin roof. A notable example of regional architecture built for one of the regions most distinguished figures, Thomas Lydyat (1572-1646), rector of Alkerton and a greatly respected writer and scholar in his day. Wall probably C18. Approximately 4 metres high. Finely jointed ironstone with a stone coping. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p421; Wood-Jones, pp151-2 and pp271-3, plates 1b and 16d; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, pp45 and 50; Oxfordshire Record Society II (1920) 6)
Listing NGR: SP3774342894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244608
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 45 AND 50
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 421
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 151-2
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 271-3
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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