Description

FREELAND WROSLYN ROAD
SP41SW (West side)
10/88 No.168 (The Old Parsonage) and
12/09/73 attached wall
GV II
Parsonage, now part of Convent of St. Clare. 1869-71, by J.L. Pearson. Coursed
limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and bands; half-hipped plain-tile roof;
stone ashlar stack to left. Double-depth plan. Gothic Arts and Crafts style. One
storey and attic; 5-window range, with 2 asymmetrical gabled bays to left.
Studded door with wrought-iron fittings set in double-chamfered pointed-arched
archway. 3 offset buttresses to bay divisions. Tympanum arches over 2-and
3-light transomed plate-tracery windows, with quatrefoil carvings in each
spandrel; 3-light stone-mullioned window above door, and gabled half-dormer with
similar wood-mullioned and transomed window to right. Remodelled roughcast block
to right. Half-timbering and stone-mullioned and transomed windows to rear.
One-storey gallery connected to Church of St. Mary (q.v.) on left. Interior:
wood-framed dog-leg staircase. Subsidiary features: approximately 5 metres of
limestone rubble wall with pointed arched doorway runs to Old Schoolhouse (q.v.)
on right.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p607)

Listing NGR: SP4137212722

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26494674

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)