The Old Parsonage

THE OLD PARSONAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1052711
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1952
List Entry Name:
The Old Parsonage
Statutory Address:
THE OLD PARSONAGE
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Date:
1999-10-15
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1052711
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
23-Nov-1990
List Entry Name:
The Old Parsonage
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD PARSONAGE

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD PARSONAGE

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:
Buscot
National Grid Reference:
SU 22596 98147

Details

BUSCOT SU29NW The Old Parsonage 1/4 (formerly listed as "The 10/11/52 Rectory") GV II* Rectory, now house. 1703 addition to older house, Stone with a moulded coved cornice and hipped, stone tiled roof. 2 storeys, attic and cellar. S front of 5 bays with 2 gabled and stone tiled dormers, sash windows in reveals with moulded architraves. Elongated stone stacks at each end with moulded caps. E and W fronts of 3 bays with 2 dormers. Entrance now on E front, moved from S, through a 6-panelled door with 3-pane rectangular fanlight, approached by a flight of stone steps with plain handrail. Service wing to N is the remains of the earlier house, one storey and attic of rubble stone with hipped, stone tiled roof. 2-and 4-light hipped stone tiled dormers with modern leaded lights on N front. Cambered brick arches to windows reveal C19 alterations. The interior has a cantilevered staircase with elm hand rail and turned balusters and several rooms with bolection moulded panelling and panelled window shutters and bolection moulded stone fireplaces. Dentil cornices in most rooms. The Properties of the National Trust, 1978, 126.

Listing NGR: SU2259198146

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Legacy System number:
251461
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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The Properties of the National Trust, (1978), 126

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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