Rectory Farmhouse
RECTORY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048939
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048939
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE
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 FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Northmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 42148 02825
Details
NORTHMOOR SP40SW 11/213 Rectory Farmhouse 12/09/55 (Formerly listed as Rectory Farmhouse and dovecote) GV II*
Farmhouse. Datestone 1629 above door. Coursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; stone rendered ridge stack and similar gable end stack to left wing. L-plan with front left wing. 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range. Label mould over moulded stone architrave with sunk spandrels framing C18 four-panelled door. Label moulds over ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned round-headed windows, with sunk spandrels, of one, 2 and 4 lights. Two C20 gabled roof dormers. Front left wing of 2-window range: 2 similar one-light windows and canted 3-storey bay window with similar mullioned windows and render over timber-framed upper storey. Similar round-headed and square-headed mullioned windows and 2 early C17 studded doors with chamfered arched surrounds to left side and rear. C18 and mid C19 service ranges of similar materials to right. Interior; left wing; central timber-framed partition, and winder stairs set in timber frame with moulded arched doorframes; front room has moulded stone fireplace, moulded plaster cornice and plasterwork with pomegranate trails etc. to soffit of beam; first floor has similar plasterwork in front room and chamfered beams. 2 units with central lobby-entry to right: newel stairs to right; lobby has moulded arched doorframes; room to right has chamfered beam and open fireplace with hollow-chamfered wood bressumer and stone jambs; room to left has ogee-moulded beam and moulded stone fireplace with sunk spandrels. Room to rear left, former buttery and pantry, has moulded arched doorframe. Rectory Farmhouse stands on a moated site south of the Church of St. Denys (q.v.), and is a good example of an unaltered early C17 house.
Listing NGR: SP4215002825
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252297
- 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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