The Old Rectory, Halton House and Attached Walls and Piers
THE OLD RECTORY, HALTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370049
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory, Halton House and Attached Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, HALTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370049
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Rectory, Halton House and Attached Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD RECTORY, HALTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, MAIN STREET
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, HALTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND PIERS, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Charlton-on-Otmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 56264 15822
Details
CHARLTON ON OTMOOR MAIN STREET SP5615 (South side) 11/17 The Old Rectory, Halton House 26/11/51 and attached walls and piers (Formerly listed as Rectory) GV II Rectory, now 2 houses. 1689 for Dr. Halton; altered and enlarged c.1805 for Revd. John Knipe. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. L-plan, much extended. 2 storeys plus attic. Architectural front, facing garden, has a 2-storey service range projecting from extreme left of the C17 section; to extreme right is a regular 5-window section with 12-pane sashes above tall casements and, its central bay, a tripartite sash above an added stone porch, (dated 1856), with pilasters and a cornice; earliest section retains, at first floor, three 2-light stone-mullioned windows with Classical architraves and moulded sills, and at ground floor has a blocked doorway between 3-light mullioned windows, the right window complete with 2 early casements, the left window without its mullions and containing a later 4-light casement. Rear and left gable wall of C17 section have further stone-mullioned windows of one and 2 lights, fitted with sashes and all with damaged architraves; gable shows original roofline, raised to align with roof of later section. Rear of later range has a double-gabled rear wing with an arched stair window, and a projecting porch containing a panelled door in a stone-architraved doorway framed by Tuscan pilasters and a large triangular pediment. Interior: earlier range has stop-chamfered cross beams, a winder stair, and some old doors. Stone-coped rubble walls approximately 2.5 metres high extend between ashlar piers, approximately 40 metres to east and 15 metres to west of the porch, returning down Otmoor Lane for approximately 35 metres. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.IV, p.81; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.530 and 936).
Listing NGR: SP5626415822
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243254
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1979), 81
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 530 936
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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