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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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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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 243254
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 530 936
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1979), 81

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.