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STANTON HARCOURT
SP4105 No.17 and Estate Office
21/286

GV II

Vicarage, now house and office. Late C16/early C17; refronted and extended to
rear in late C17. Uncoursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; rendered
right end external stack, and C19 stack to left. L-plan with rear right wing. 2
storeys; 3-window range. Brick segmental arch over C19 plank door with gabled
bracketed hood. Similar arches over late C17 cross windows with leaded-lights
and blocked window over door. Timber lintels over 2- and 3-light leaded-light
windows flanking blocked doorway with C20 casement. Rear wing of similar
materials and 2-storey, 3-window range; raised brick segmental-arched surrounds
to C20 windows and 3 late C17 cross windows with leaded-lights. Interior: Estate
Office has late C16 moulded beams and moulded stone fireplaces; partial
inspection only. No.17 boxed beams to front and hollow-chamfered quartered
beams to rear. An important early meeting place for John and Charles Wesley
during the incumbency of John Gambold - who later became a Moravian bishop.
(A. Pacey, Duck End: a group of Oxfordshire houses, (privately published), 1985,
p.21).

Listing NGR: SP4166005687