The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245296
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245296
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1997
- 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:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Childrey
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 36090 87613
Details
SU 3648 CHILDREY
541/12/10003 The Old Rectory
GV II
Shown on OS map as The Old Manse. House, formerly rectory. Circa C15, extended C17/18 and remodelled and extended in circa 1860s. Stone, partly faced in red brick. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and gable-end stacks. PLAN: 3 bays of C15 house on left [W], comprising a 2-bay open hall on left, 1-bay solar on right and with narrow bay between and putative service end [missing] on left [W]. In about the late C17 the hall was floored and a chimney stack built in the narrow bay, and in the late C17 or early C18 the main range was extended to the right [E] and a wing built behind the hall. In the C19 a stair hall was built at the back and in about the 1860s the front was faced in brick and a wing was built on the back of the right end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 2:3 window range south front, the left with steeper roof and lower eaves; brick modillion eaves and moulded brick string running through corbelled segmental arch window canopies; wooden chamfered mullion-transom windows with 2-light sashes on first floor, and on ground floor three tall windows on right and C20 French windows on left. Rear [N], stone wing on right, Victorian brick wing on left and hipped stair hall at centre with C20 porch. INTERIOR: C18 and early C19 panelled doors, Victorian main staircase and early C18 balusters reused in servants' stairs; early C19 glazed door and fanlight in entrance hall; Victorian Gothic chimneypieces and C18 chimneypiece in east chamber. Rear [NW] wing has chamfered cross-beams with hollow step stops. Inserted floor in former hall has chamfered axial beam with truncated hollow stops and inserted stack with wide fireplace with chamfered timber lintel. 3-bay C15 roof over west end of main range with cambered arch-braced collars and two tiers of tenoned purlins with curved wind-braces, all with hollow chamfers; common rafter couples intact; the two open hall bays to left [W] heavily smoke-blackened and solar bay on right clean; narrow bay between hall and solar. Inserted into west bay of hall a small plastered partition supported on a collar with birds mouth joints to upper purlins, all smoke-blackened and possibly installed to control the smoke. Tie-beam and collar trusses over right [E] end of main range and late C19 king-post roof over rear NE wing; NW wing roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: SU3609087613
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468745
- 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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