Rectory Farmhouse
RECTORY FARMHOUSE, MIDDLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182251
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE, MIDDLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182251
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE, MIDDLE ROAD
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, MIDDLE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanton St. John
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 57793 09396
Details
STANTON ST. JOHN MIDDLE ROAD SP5ONE (East side) 5/160 Rectory Farmhouse 18/07/63
GV II*
Farmhouse. Late C16/early C17 and mid/late C17. Limestone ashlar and rubble; concrete plain-tile roof. L-plan. 2 storeys plus attics. Symmetrical 3-window front , with chamfered plinth, has a central 4-centre arched doorway with recessed spandrels below a 2-light window; outer bays have 4-light windows at ground and first floors. All windows have ovolo-moulded stone mullions and some have leaded lights; ground-floor openings have labels. Roof has one gabled roof dormer, to left, and flanking stone gable stacks with projecting weatherings. Left gable wall has single-light moulded-stone windows, and returns to 2-window rear wing, with further 2- and 3-light mullioned windows with labels, extended by a lower rubble range with a 4-light leaded casement. Rear of main ranges have similar mullioned windows and there is a blocked doorway opposite the main entrance. Interior: Timber-framed partitions with richly-moulded 4-centre arched doorways with recessed spandrels and elaborate chamfer stops; 2 similarly-moulded Tudor-arched fireplaces and other plainer stone fireplaces; 2 winder stairs rising to attics; bolection-mould grained panelled room; large open fireplace in C17 kitchen wing with very wide chamfered bressumer; butt-purlin roof. Main doorway shows some evidence of re-location and may have been originally in the return front, opening into the lobby in line with the second winder stair. The present entrance hall was formerly a through passage. Over the doorway is a plaque recording the birth there of John White (1575-1648) "Chief founder of Massachusetts, New England". (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p,283; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.785).
Listing NGR: SP5779009395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246680
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 283
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 785
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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