Greys Mallory Including Forecourt Walls To East And South East

BISHOPS TACHBROOK Banbury Road 16/100 Greys Mallory including forecourt walls to east - and south-east

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Large house. Dated 1903 on foundation stone. Designed by Percy Richard Morley- Horder (1870-1944). Built in Elizabethan style. L-shaped plan with house forming N-S range; service wing and garage in E-W range. Steeply pitched plain tile roofs with gabled ends. Red brick plinth; rough cast rendered with stone dressings. House of two storeys and seven bays. Centrally placed entrance door with semicircular portico of four stone columns. Above entrance a three-light stone mullioned casement with leaded panes. To left and right of entrance two-storey bay windows with semicircular headed gables. At ground floor 10-light stone mullioned and transomed casements with leaded panes. At first floor five-light stone mullioned casements with leaded panes. Remainder of windows are casements of one, two and three lights with leaded panes. Three red brick chimney stacks at ridge, each with three diagonally placed shafts. Interior: fine period interiors particularly to ground floor rooms. Attached at right angles to right of house is a slightly lower two-storey service wing and one-storey and attic garage and cottage. Central carriage arch with lantern above, containing clock, cupola and weathervane. Brick walls with stone dressings to east and south sides of forecourt.

Listing NGR: SP3003961621