The Old Rectory

THE OLD RECTORY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1090155
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:
The Old Rectory
Statutory Address:
THE OLD RECTORY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1090155
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
The Old Rectory
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD RECTORY

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD RECTORY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:
North Cerney
National Grid Reference:
SP 01760 07788

Details

NORTH CERNEY NORTH CERNEY VILLAGE SP01 075 - 02 075 16/229 The Old Rectory (formerly listed as Rectory and 4.2.52 Stable Block)

GV II

Former rectory now house, built 1694 by Rev. John Coxe. Incised render; stone slate roof, ashlar stacks. 'U'-shaped plan. Flat- roofed extension inserted in the courtyard and to the rear not of special interest. Two storeys attic and cellar. Formerly symmetrical 7-windowed entrance (east) front lit by 12-pane sashes with ovolo-moulded surrounds; 3-windows to the left of the door elongated 8-pane sashes. Cenral double door (up 3 stone steps) with fielded panels with moulded architraves and keystones which are extended up to meet a continuous dripmould; similar dripmould above the first floor windows; 3 segmental-headed roof dormers with 6-pane sashes; C19 gabled wrought iron porch. Two and 3-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casements and an ovolo-moulded cross window at the rear. Single-storey C20 porch rear right. Right-hand return: a flat roofed single-storey bow window (added c1828) lit by three 12-pane sashes with dressed stone architraves and keystones; band and moulded cornice above windows; tripartite sash above the bow window; painted arms of University College Oxford to the right; fenestration otherwise 12-pane sashes with ovolo-moulded surrounds. Hipped roof with projecting and axial stacks with moulded capping. Interior: original C17 dogleg staircase with turned balusters and ramped handrail. Bolection moulded architraves formerly in hall now removed. (D. Verey, The Buildings of England: The Cotswolds, 1979).

Listing NGR: SP0175607791

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Legacy System number:
131252
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)

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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