Manor House

SP61NW PIDDINGTON VICARAGE LANE (West side)

11/139 Manor House

• II

Farmhouse, probably incorporating parts of manor house. Late C17/early C18, with earlier fragments, extended C19. Coursed and random limestone rubble with squared quoins, some brick dressings and wooden lintels; brick in Flemish garden-wall bond; old plain-tile roof with brick gable stacks. T-plan, extended. 2 storeys plus attic. 4-window front has a doorway, to left of centre, between large 4-light casements and has a C20 French window to right: first floor has 4 short 6-pane sashes below a continuous lintel partly covered by a deep plastered eaves cove. Masonry shows much evidence of an earlier fenestration pattern. Roof has 4 small 2-light hipped roof dormers and has stacks to both gables and in the centre. Left gable wall has irregular masonry with signs of a lower gable line. Short rubble rear wing is flanked by longer C19 rubble-and-brick rear wing, incorporating some earlier masonry, and a brick range parallel to the main range. Interior; open fireplaces some chamfered beams; squared intersecting beams and signs of framing at first floor; butt-purl in roof incorporating 2 cambered collars, one certainly medieval with mortices for arched braces but possibly re-used. The house has associations with the poet John Drinkwater. (V.C.H.: 0xfordsfiire, Vol.V, p.250).

Listing NGR: SP6401016881