The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, PRIORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1224757
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, PRIORY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1224757
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, PRIORY 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 RECTORY, PRIORY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 25079 12369
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON PRIORY LANE AND SIGNET (North side) SP2512 (Enlargement) The Old Rectory 7/177 (Previously listed 12.9.55 under Upton and Signet C.P.)
GV II
Parsonage house. c.1680-1700, usually attributed to Christopher Kempster. Freestone front, hipped Cotswold stone roof. Roughly T-plan. Classic astylar small Queen Anne house. 2 storeys and attic. Chamfered quoins, low plinth, band over ground floor, coved eaves cornice with bed-mould. 2 gabled dormers to front and one in each hip. 1:3:1 windows with 2-window windows with 2-window return to south, sashes, perhaps contemporary, with thick ovolo glazing bars in moulded architraves with bracket cills. Central pedimented doorcase with pulvinated frieze, 6-(flush) panel door. 2 ashlar chimneys at apices of hips, with cornices. The rear wing may not be exactly contemporary, possibly a little later. Altered 2 storeys on cellar, 2:1 windows, cross mullion type, large stepped ashlar stack to East; to South, 4 windows on 1st floor and a gabled dormer. Interior retains several features. To the front range, 2 fireplaces, a shell-niche cupboard and raised and fielder shutters (in SE room). To rear a c.1700 stairwell with heavy turned balusters, lower flight altered; the West end room, now divided retains box cornice.
Listing NGR: SP2507912369
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420902
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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