Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1986. House.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-dormer-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House is a large, irregular rambling house that originated as three cottages or a farmhouse in the 17th century, with additions and alterations made around 1910 to 1915. It features three ranges and a square tower with brick flying buttresses, designed in a picturesque Arts and Crafts style.
The left barn or hall range is constructed from coursed ironstone rubble and has a hipped thatched roof with a large projecting lateral brick stack. It includes two Early English lancet windows and 19th-century casements. The left end features an oriel window that leads to a minstrel's gallery added around 1910.
The central range, also made of coursed ironstone rubble, has a hipped thatched roof and two brick end stacks, one with diagonally set shafts. It is two storeys plus an attic and has an L-plan layout. The rear has a four-window range with two-light stone mullioned windows that have hood moulds and label stops, along with four metal casements in wood frames and a large dormer with latticed lights. The front has 20th-century four-centred arched doorways with plank or stable doors and 20th-century casements.
The square tower, made of coursed ironstone rubble, features lancet windows and brick flying buttresses. The right range has brick at the rear and coursed ironstone at the front, with a hipped and gabled thatched roof. The front includes two- and three-light casements in wood frames with wood lintels, as well as three-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops.
Inside, the 17th-century part of the house has stop-chamfered beams, an inglenook with a chamfered bressumer, stone flag floors, a plank door, window seats, shutters, and panelling. The hall features a c.1910 interior with a three-bay pegged principal rafter roof, a dias, a minstrel's gallery, and a large fireplace. Other details from the c.1910-1915 period include brick fireplaces, wooden stairs, and roofs. The alterations were made for the pageant master Frank Lascelles.
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