The Old Vicarage
THE OLD VICARAGE, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215876
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215876
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, SCHOOL LANE
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 VICARAGE, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bourton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45733 45519
Details
BOURTON SCHOOL LANE SP4545 (North side) Great Bourton 17/14 The Old Vicarage
GV II
Vicarage, now house. c,1850 by William White. Ironstone ashlar. Steeply pitched red tile roofs with ornamental ridge tiles. Brick ridge and end stacks. Stone lateral stacks with brick shafts, L-plan with elevation facing Main Street and rear double-range with M-shaped roof. Elevation facing road hasa canted bay window with hipped tiled roof and a 3-light stone mullioned window. Attic has a gabled full dormer with a 4-light stone mullioned window and remains of finial, Left end has a tile-hung gable, a 2-storey bay window with tile-hanging on stone lateral stack and 2 buttresses. Right end. Single-storey stone and timber porch with red-tile roof and ornamental ridge tiles. Plank door with wrought-iron fittings, Arch bracing. Early English style windows in right gable. Rear range has 2-window range, tile-hung, jettied and with 2 entrances. 2 gabled half-dormers. Left elevation or garden front. Irregular with red tile pent roofs, and stone lateral stack. Interior: Pointed arched doorways, plank doors with strap hinges and wrought-iron latches. Open wall staircase with pendants. Bay windows with shutters with wrought-iron hinges and fasteners. 0riqinal stone fireplace. William White was one of a group of architects associated with the Ecclesiological movement which developed a style of Gothic for small houses and parsonages in the Mid Victorian Period. ( R. and Muthesius, S. Victorian Architecture, 1985, p49)
Listing NGR: SP4573345519
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401182
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dixon, R, Muthesius, S, Victorian Architecture, (1978), 49
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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