Austy Manor And Attached Walls And Piers

WOOTTON WAWEN

SP16SE STRATFORD ROAD 1457-1/5/157 (East side) 15/10/97 Austy Manor and attached walls and piers

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House, now offices. 1912 for FW Fieldhouse, probably to his own design. Unpainted stucco with ashlar dressings and stone slate roof. In the style of a Cotswold's manor house. Double-pile plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 5 bays, of which alternate bays break forward and are gabled, with windows arranged 1:2:1:2:1, and single-storey, single bay to left. Central entrance: moulded panel door within round-arched opening with moulded architrave and lozenge motif to frieze. Ground floor has 4-light mullion windows; first floor has 3- and 4-light mullion windows, all in chamfered surrounds and with chamfered mullions, those to break-forwards have dripmoulds. Decorative motif and copings to gables. Ridge stacks and further end stacks to apex of end gables of which those to foremost are barley-twist. INTERIOR: rear hall has light oak open-well staircase with barley-twist balusters. Main entrance hall has oak panelling, exposed beams and joists to ceiling and huge stone fireplace with Tudor-style surround. Dining-room (to left) has oak panelling with frieze, and Tudor-style fireplace. Saloon (to right) has barrel-vaulted ceiling with plaster embellishment and painted panelling. Room to rear right has oak panelling in Serlio-type design with fluted pilasters and large Tudor-style fireplace. First floor: barrel-vaulting to corridor. Rooms to front have mainly decorative friezes with heraldic embellishments, some simpler Tudor-type fireplaces. One room to rear is panelled. Some rooms are divided. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: walls to front abut sides and have copings, with taller piers at intervals with cornices and blocking course.

Listing NGR: SP1618262571