THE OLD VICARAGE

THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH STREET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1199889
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: THE OLD VICARAGE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH STREET

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2005-02-06
Reference:: IOE01/13419/08
Rights:: © Dale Venn. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1199889
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: THE OLD VICARAGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH STREET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH STREET

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Bicester
National Grid Reference:: SP 58255 22309

Details

BICESTER CHURCH STREET SP5822S (South side) 3/31 The Old Vicarage 03/01/52 (Formerly listed as The Vicarage) GV II*

Vicarage, now house. c.1500, altered and extended probably C18 and 1882. Limestone rubble, partly rendered, and coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings; part-old plain-tile roofs with brick and ashlar stacks. Hall house with cross wing, enlarged to U-plan. 2 storeys and 2 storeys plus attics. 2-window front of rendered main range has C19 stone-mullioned windows at first floor; C19 stone lean-to addition to ground floor has similar windows with lattice glazing, and returns beside the short C19 stone wing which projects from the left of the main range. Half-hipped front gable end of wing has stone mullioned-and-transomed windows, and there is a 4-centre arched stone doorway in the end of the lean-to and a parapetted canted bay window at first floor in the angle of the ranges. Crosswing returns to an earlier random-rubble range, which has five 2-light casements, facing left, each set into a stone surround of c.1500 with wide casement mouldings and labels with deep drops; roof has a small roof dormer. Rear of main range includes a large 2-storey C19 bay window. Service range returning to rear from right end of main range is probably C18 and is partly rendered over light framing. Interior: main range comprises a 3-bay hall, now horizontally divided, but retaining a fine arch-braced collar-truss roof, with cambered collars, and hollow-chamfered braces extending from the apex of the arches down to shortened wallposts; rafters are pegged at the ridge and the 2 rows of butt purlins are supported on heavy arched windbraces. 2-bay roof of chamber at right end of main range has a similar structure, except that there is a ridge piece and the central truss is of "scissor" type, formed from opposed S-shaped braces. The chamber (or solar) contains a Tudor-arched fireplace with a wooden bressumer, recessed spandrels, and hollow chamfering carried down the ashlar jambs. The room below has a ceiling with intersecting moulded V-section beams and very wide hollow-chamfered joists (the plaster boss is probably C19), and it has 2 Tudor-arched wooden doorways (one blocked), with recessed spandrels, one doorway retaining an ancient plank door with original ironmongery. The cross wing has C17/early-C18 and C19 roof structures but retains a fragment of an earlier roof with a diagonally-set ridge piece. The present through-passage from the front door, now opening into a C19 stair hall, is probably on the site of a screens passage. The hall roof is unblackened and a wide Tudor-arched moulded bressumer, now re-set on its side in a chimneybreast below the chamber, may be from the missing hall fireplace, possibly on the site of the present bay window. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.17; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.455).

Listing NGR: SP5825522309

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 243505
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 455
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 17

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.