The Old Rectory
THE OLD RECTORY, EVENLY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369810
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, EVENLY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369810
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, EVENLY ROAD
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, EVENLY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mixbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 60887 33939
Details
MIXBURY EVENLY ROAD SP6033-6133 (East side) 10/64 The Old Rectory
GV II
Rectory, now house. c.1806 enlarged 1855. Squared coursed limestone with brick dressings to earliest part. Hipped and gabled slate roofs. Brick ridge and internal stacks. Double depth plan with c.1855 additions to left and rear. 2 storeys plus attic. 4-window range. Late C19 two-story canted bay window on left. Entrance to right flanked by sashes with glazing bars,horns and brick flat arches. C20 door. First floor has 3 unhorned sashes with glazing bars. 3 roof dormers. Interior has C19 marble fireplace, moulded ceiling cornices and ceiling pendants, panelled doors. Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne and Lord Chancellor was born here in 1812, d.1895. Built by Reverend William Jocelyn Palmer on site of old rectory pulled down between 1806-1810. (Blomfield, J.C.: History of Mixbury in History of the Present Deanery of Bicester, 1895, pp41, 52, 57)
Listing NGR: SP6088733939
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243657
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blomfield, JC, History of the Present Deanery of Bicester Oxfordshire, (1895), 41
Blomfield, JC, History of the Present Deanery of Bicester Oxfordshire, (1895), 52
Blomfield, JC, History of the Present Deanery of Bicester Oxfordshire, (1895), 57
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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