The Old Vicarage
THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048697
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH WAY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048697
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH WAY
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, CHURCH WAY
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:
- Sparsholt
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 34622 87606
Details
SPARSHOLT CHURCH WAY SU38NW 6/133 The Old Vicarage
GV II
Vicarage, now house. C17 wing to left modified c.1873, early C18 block to right. English garden wall bond brick with limestone bands to left over probable timber frame; coursed sarsen rubble with chalk bands and limestone quoins and dressings; original front wall to right side in chalk ashlar with limestone quoins and dressings; stone slate roof, tiled to rear; brick stacks. Original plan of early C18 house had central staircase with C17 wing lying parallel at rear. 2-storey, 3-window range. Left gable wall has pointed brick arch over entry to vestibule and retaining-arch and timber lintel over 5-light leaded casement, reset in late C19 wall, and one C20 casement; gabled wall has square returns to moulded kneelers. Early C18 wall to right, plain limestone architraves with raised keyblocks to 4-late C19 sashes: moulded cornice; hipped roof. The original early C18 front to right side has 3-window range of similar windows but with 2 original sashes to ground floor; one late C19 sash blocks original central door and left side obscured by school built c.1873; limestone storey band, chamfered quoining and moulded cornice. Ridge stack and rear left lateral stack. Interior: C17 chamfered and stopped beam to front left; 6- and 2- panelled early C18 doors, and panelled shutters; early C18 fireplace with stone moulded architrave to first floor rear right room; early C18 dog-leg with landing stairs to centre right have turned balusters; 3-bay collar-truss roof with butt purlins to early C18 section of house. Attached to the right wall is a school built in about c.1873, which seems also to be the date of the brick cladding to the left wing and the insertion of late C19 sashes. C20 lean-to against left gable wall.
Listing NGR: SU3462187607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250769
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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