Little Pelham
LITTLE PELHAM, RECTORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048385
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Little Pelham
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE PELHAM, RECTORY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048385
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Little Pelham
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE PELHAM, RECTORY 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:
- LITTLE PELHAM, RECTORY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 40791 97633
Details
KINGSTON BAGPUIZE WITH SOUTHMOOR RECTORY LANE SU4097 (West side) 14/111 Little Pelham 09/02/66
- II
Rectory, now house. Designed c.1723 by Dr. George Clarke of Oxford for Richard Blechinden: remodelled c.1820-30, Coursed limestone rubble; hipped Welsh slate roof; brick end stacks and rear lateral stack. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys: symmetrical 5-window range. Central bay is framed by rusticated Doric pilasters and has unusual ashlar open-pedimented porch: rusticated pilasters have alternating plain and frosted stonework to raised pilaster quoins and raised voussoirs; prominent frosted keystone to round-arched doorway: Double-leaf C19 half-glazed doors with Gothick fanlight, ground floor flat stone arches and C19 first-floor stone lintels over early C19 sashes. Rear: early C18 2-bay range of one storey and attic; coursed linestone rubble with gabled old tile roof and brick end stack: rear wall has 2 early C18 sashes with thick glazing bars, and leaded dormer casements: adjoins rear right outshut. Interior: early C18 fireplace in room to left, and early C18 panelled doors. Early C19 fireplaces and open-well staircase with stick balusters. This house is one of only 2 buildings which Dr. Clarke designed outside 0xford. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.161; V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.IV, p.349; H.M.Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 1978, p.217).
Listing NGR: SU4079197633
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249609
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 161
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 349
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 217
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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