Ruins of Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1951. Manor house.
Ruins of Manor House
- WRENN ID
- haunted-solder-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1951
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Ruins of Manor House, Hampton Gay and Poyle
- OS grid reference
- SP 486 164
- Coordinates
- 51.8449, -1.29557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ruins of a manor house, dating from the late 16th century, are located in Hampton Gay. The building was burned down in 1887 and now stands as a ruin. The walls are made of squared and coursed limestone rubble, and the structure has an E-plan layout. The gabled outer wings feature moulded kneelers and hood moulds above two three-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows on the left. Other windows have moulded architraves, while the centre has three-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows.
At the center, there is a two-storey porch that is crenellated, with a similar ovolo-moulded three-light window above a moulded arched doorway that includes shields in the spandrels. Stone ashlar stacks are located on the left and rear right. The rear and left sides also have similar windows, and there is a similar doorway on the left side wall. Inside, there is a moulded arched fireplace and a chamfered pointed arched fireplace in the left wing. The site is scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
Local climate
Ruins of Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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