Tysoe Manor And Attached Wall

Tysoe Manor is a house, originally a late 14th-century hall range, that has been altered and extended in the 17th and 20th centuries. The main part of the house is constructed from squared, coursed ironstone with a stone slate roof and stone ridge and end stacks, with diagonally set flues. The original hall range is two storeys high plus an attic, with a two-window front. A restored four-centred arch, flanked by spandrels and with a hood mould and label stops, frames a wrought iron and glazed door on the right side. To the left is a restored five-light stone mullioned window, also with a hood mould and label stops, and above it, a similar four-light window. A two-light window with reticulated tracery, set within a double chamfered surround and with a hood mould and label stop, is situated centrally on the first floor, possibly a repositioned 14th-century feature. A stone projection to the rear may have served as a lateral stack or stair turret. Other external features include quoins, stone coped gables (with a ball finial on the right gable's apex), and a small room with a lead rainwater head dated 1678.

An adjoining hall range to the right was built in the late 17th century, also two storeys high plus an attic, and has a two-window front. It features a four-light mullioned window on the ground floor and a two-light mullioned window with ovolo moulding on the first floor. Above this is a three-light mullioned window. All windows have hood moulds and label stops. Two gabled dormers are present, each with a two-light mullioned window. The right-hand gables are coped, and a rainwater head on the gable end is dated 1710. Further to the right is a two-storey range, with a plank door within a moulded surround, a three-light mullioned window to the right, and a single-light window to the left of the first floor. A large 20th-century range extends to the rear.

A late 18th-century ironstone wall, approximately 10 metres long and running forward from the front of the house, is topped with three courses of coping and quoins to the ends.

The interior of the original hall range contains a late 14th-century roof with moulded arch-braced collar trusses, curved wind braces, and four bays. On the first floor are chamfered stone pointed-arch doorways, believed to be original, and stone flagged floors. The 17th-century range features chamfered spine beams.