Manor Farmhouse

BANBURY MANOR ROAD SP44SE (North side) Grimsbury 2/101 No.141 (Manor Farmhouse) 09/04/52 - II

Farmhouse. C16/C17. Regular coursed ironstone rubble with fine joints. Steeply pitched tile roof. Stone stacks and brick stacks on stone bases to ends, stone copings. 2 storeys plus attic. L-plan. Main range has wing projecting on right. Doorway to right has 4-centred arched head, chamfered soffit and jambs and 6-panelled door. 2-light stone mullion window to right. To left a 4-light stone mullion window. Continuous hood mould to all ground floor openings. First floor has two 3-light stone mullion windows with hood moulds and label stops. 2 gable front dormers have moulded kneelers and 2-light stone mullion windows. Wing to right has 4-light stone mullion windows to ground floor, 3-light stone mullion windows to first floor and 2-light mullion window to attic. Hood moulds and label stops, some probably renewed. All mullions painted white. Stone plinth. Single storey extension to left has brick and stone axial stack, 3-light stone mullion window. Stone coping to left. Interior: 4-centred stone fireplace; inglenook fireplace with bressumer; stop-chamfered beams, chamfered joists; wooden winder stair; butt purlin roof; stone flag floors. N.M.R. photograph. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.444).

Listing NGR: SP4658741640