The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194216
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194216
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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:
- THE OLD RECTORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Britwell Salome
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 67487 93660
Details
BRITWELL SU6793 8/19 The Old Rectory 18/07/63 (Formerly listed as The Old Rectory Britwell Salome)
GV II
Rectory, now house. C17, remodelled c.1670 by James Stopes and in early C18 for his son James Stopes. Flemish bond red brick with purple brick diaper patterns to side walls; old tile roof; brick stacks. T-plan with rear right range. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Segmental moulded hood over 6-panelled door in moulded architrave. Sashes to all windows with ground-floor gauged brick flat arches and flat brick arches above. Raised storey band: moulded cornice. 3 hipped dormers with C20 lights. Gabled roof; rear lateral and ridge stacks. Storey bands continued around 2-window range with leaded casements. C17 wing of three-window range to rear right is rendered to left and has square timber framing over C18 brick wall to right; gauged brick flat arch over C20 window, hipped dormer and gabled old tile roof with ridge stack. Interior: front range has early C18 doors in moulded architraves, timber-framed partitions to central passage: early C18 cornice and fireplace to left, mid C19 plaster ceiling to right: late C17 open-well stairs to rear right has turned balusters on closed string, ball-finial newel posts, pendentives and pilasters to dado. C17 two-unit lobby-entry range to rear has original chamfered doorways adjoining stack, chamfered and stopped beams, and barley-malting room with trap doors to rear. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.486; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VIII, p.44; Biddy O'Sullivan, The Two Britwells, (privately published), 1969, pp.21-2).
Listing NGR: SU6748793660
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247490
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1954), 44
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 486
Sullivan, B O, The Two Britwells, (1969), 21-2
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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