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Latitude: 51.8094 / 51°48'33"N
Longitude: -1.6376 / 1°38'15"W
OS Eastings: 425079
OS Northings: 212369
OS Grid: SP250123
Mapcode National: GBR 5SW.DSV
Mapcode Global: VHBZS.KSM8
Plus Code: 9C3WR956+QW
Entry Name: The Old Rectory
Listing Date: 12 September 1955
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1224757
English Heritage Legacy ID: 420902
Also known as: The Old Rectory, Priory Lane
ID on this website: 101224757
Location: Burford, West Oxfordshire, OX18
County: Oxfordshire
District: West Oxfordshire
Civil Parish: Burford
Built-Up Area: Burford
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Burford
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Clergy house
BURFORD AND UPTON PRIORY LANE
AND SIGNET (North side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) The Old Rectory
7/177 (Previously listed
12.9.55 under Upton and Signet
C.P.)
GV II
Parsonage house. c.1680-1700, usually attributed to Christopher Kempster.
Freestone front, hipped Cotswold stone roof. Roughly T-plan. Classic
astylar small Queen Anne house. 2 storeys and attic. Chamfered quoins,
low plinth, band over ground floor, coved eaves cornice with bed-mould. 2
gabled dormers to front and one in each hip. 1:3:1 windows with 2-window windows with 2-window
return to south, sashes, perhaps contemporary, with thick ovolo glazing
bars in moulded architraves with bracket cills. Central pedimented
doorcase with pulvinated frieze, 6-(flush) panel door. 2 ashlar chimneys
at apices of hips, with cornices. The rear wing may not be exactly
contemporary, possibly a little later. Altered 2 storeys on cellar, 2:1
windows, cross mullion type, large stepped ashlar stack to East; to South,
4 windows on 1st floor and a gabled dormer.
Interior retains several features. To the front range, 2 fireplaces, a
shell-niche cupboard and raised and fielder shutters (in SE room). To
rear a c.1700 stairwell with heavy turned balusters, lower flight altered;
the West end room, now divided retains box cornice.
Listing NGR: SP2507912369
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