The Old Rectory and Parsonage Flat
PARSONAGE FLAT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198563
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Parsonage Flat
- Statutory Address:
- PARSONAGE FLAT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198563
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory and Parsonage Flat
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARSONAGE FLAT
- Statutory Address 2:
- 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:
- PARSONAGE FLAT
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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:
- Letcombe Bassett
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 37450 84987
Details
LETCOMBE BASSETT SU38SE 10/125 The Old Rectory and Parsonage 25/10/51 Flat. GV II
House. C17, remodelled late C18. Roughcast with tile clad gables to front, over timber frame; tile roof; brick stacks. Hall with cross-wings. 2 storeys; 6- window range. Fenestration 1:3:2 to gabled wing, recessed and double-gabled centre, and gabled wing. Late C20 porch to central C20 door, late C18 sashes: gabled roof; end stacks. Interior: late C18 dog-leg with landing stairs; panelled doors; stone floor to hall; timber framed partition to first floor right; 3-bay C17 collar truss roof with butt purlins to right wing; left wing slightly lower and probably earlier, but not inspected. Late C18 block to rear left: Flemish bond brick, slate roof; 2-unit plan with access to house; 4-bay garden front gauged flat brick arches over sashes, each recessed in a semi- circular gauged brick arch. Late C19 brick cornice, central dormer and hipped roof; end stacks. Interior: late C18 fireplaces in two rooms. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) stayed here in 1714, where he wrote "Verses on Himself" and "Some Free Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs." (Frederick T. Barrett, Letcombe Bassett Then and Now, 1950 (reprinted 1980), pp. 16-18).
Listing NGR: SU3745084987
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250754
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barrett, F T, Letcombe Bassett Then and Now, (1980), 16-18
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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