Rectory Farmhouse
RECTORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283320
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283320
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Rectory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- RECTORY FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Langford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 24945 02496
Details
LANGFORD CHURCH LANE SP2402-2502 (South side) 6/104 Rectory Farmhouse 12.9.55 GV II
Rectory, now farmhouse. Early C17 with later additions and alterations. Uncoursed limestone rubble; stone slate roofs. H-plan. 2 storeys and gable-lit attics. 1:3:1 bays; late C18/early C19 tripartite Gothic glazing bar sashes with slender wooden colonettes to ground and first floors of cross-wings and casements in similar style to attics, all with dripmoulds. Dripmoulds also to 2 mid-C19 casements on first floor of main range. Blocked doorway to right of centre in main range has C19 casement to each side. Mid-C19 two-storey gabled porch projecting in angle with left cross-wing has contemporary segmental-headed 6-paned sash to first floor directly above segmental-headed 6-panel door. Small ridge stack to right cross-wing, which has more prominent end stack to rear gable. Rear. Short gabled range (open to ground floor and supported on square chamfered stone column on one side) attached to right cross-wing. Left return of left cross-wing has 3-light ovalo-mullioned window with dripmould on each floor to right. Internal lateral stack to centre with dripstone and paired and rebated shafts with moulded capping. Segmental-headed archway to left over recessed C20 glazed double doors. Gable end of main range has a 2-light mullion window to attic and a mullioned and transomed window to first floor, both with dripmoulds and a C20 canted bay projection. Slightly lower range attached at right-angles to main range has a mullioned and transomed window with dripmould and a ridge stack with dripstone and 3 attached and rebated shafts with moulded capping. Interior. Only partial inspection possible at time of resurvey (April 1987) but noted as having semi-winder staircase in hall of main range with stick balusters and open string. Left gabled wing has boxed cross beam and square heavy joists and chamfered Tudor-arched stone fireplace on ground floor. C20 single-storey flat roofed addition attached to rear of rear left range is not of special architectural interest. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p681) [2401]
Listing NGR: SP2494602493
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253855
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 681
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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