Rectory
RECTORY, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047193
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- RECTORY, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047193
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- RECTORY, MILL LANE
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:
- RECTORY, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 52688 03478
Details
MILL LANE 1. 1485 (West Side) Rectory SP 5203 SE 15/67 12.1.54. II* GV 2. RCHM 258 with a plan. Rectangular plan with the long axis North and South and with an East wing and other additions. The South range of the main North-South block is probably Cl3 and the North range added in Cl6. The East wing was added probably in Cl7. Two and partly 3-storeyed rubble with a stone slate roof and brick shafts. On the East elevation in the North range, are two projecting stacks and 2 Cl6 stone mullioned windows; the North range has a moulded string at the 1st floor, and 3-and 6-light C16 windows on the West; the square-headed stone doorway has a label and moulded jambs. The North elevation has on the North-East angle a staircase projection with a modern corridor on its East side; the windows here are Cl6. Interior:- RCHM page 185b. Includes a Cl3 opening reset in the East wall of the South range, which may possibly have come from the anchorite's cell known to have been on the South side of the chancel of Iffley Church (Notes and Queries Volumn 187 (1944) pages 292-3). There is some Cl7 panelling, a plaster ceiling and some exposed roof timbers in the South range. The whole restored and altered 1959.
The Rectory forms a group with Court House, the Church and Church Cottage, Church Way.
Listing NGR: SP5268703479
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245666
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 185
Notes and Queries in Notes and Queries, Vol. 187, (1944), 292-293
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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