Old Rectory
OLD RECTORY, CHURCH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194004
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RECTORY, CHURCH END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194004
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD RECTORY, CHURCH END
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:
- OLD RECTORY, CHURCH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swerford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 37187 31038
Details
SWERFORD CHURCH END SP3731 9/190 Old Rectory
GV II* Rectory, now house. Late C17, probably incorporating earlier parts, extended c.1800. Coursed squared marlstone; Welsh-slate and concrete plain-tile roofs with ashlar gable stacks. Double-depth plan with added wings. 2 storeys plus attic and basement. Symmetrical 3-window front of main range, with moulded plinth and first-floor string, has a central doorway with a triangular wooden pediment on consoles partly covering a blocked overlight. Windows have flat arches and contain renewed 18-pane sashes. Stone-mullioned basement windows in plinth. Left end wall has oval stair windows and a further sash. Rear has renewed sashes and a central 7-sided conservatory dated 1810 on its lead roof. Double-span roof has gable parapets with triangular copings and has 3 roof dormers to front and rear. 2-storey right wing and single-storey kitchen wing to left are set back from the front and have sashes to rear. Interior: oak dog-leg stair with heavy turned balusters and moulded handrail; subsidiary winder stair rising to attic; early C18 panelled drawing room; chamfered beams on all floors; some heavy plaster cornices; much C18 joinery; remains of moulded stone doorway in cellar (probably C16). (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.799).
Listing NGR: SP3718731038
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252006
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 799
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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