Mansionhouse Farmhouse

SP4447 13/147 08/12/55

MOLLINGTON ROUNDHILL ROAD (East side) Mansionhouse Farmhouse

GV II

Manor house, now farmhouse. Late C17, altered C18 and C19. Squared coursed lias with C20 plain tile roof. 3-unit plan, originally, probably, with through passage. 2 storeys with attic. 4-window range of 3-, 4- and 5-light stone mullion windows with hood moulds and square label stops. 3 attic gablets with 2- and 3-light stone mullion windows. 2-storey gabled porch, breaks forward to right of centre. Outer doorway has chamfered 4 centred-arch head and inner doorway has chamfered stone lintel and plank door. 2-light stone mullion window to first floor of porch. Second entrance, to right of centre, has plank door and chamfered stone lintel. Chamfered plinth to main house. Ashlar gable parapets and moulded stone kneelers throughout. Ashlar stacks at ridge and end. Left gable has stone mullion windows to each floor, including a cellar window. Rear elevation has gablet, with lateral ashlar stack, to left. Tall, 2-light leaded wooden cross window to left of centre. C18 lean-to extension, with catslide roof, to right is probably C18. Interior: secondry entrance to left may have originally led into screens passage, now gone. Kitchen to far left, has remains of large open fireplace and oven with small C17 fireplace, with 4-centred arch head, reset to left. Blocked stone mullion window, to rear of kitchen, is said to be reset, medieval, probably in place of the screens passage entrance. Centre room has large C17 fireplace with 4 centred arch-head and heavily moulded surround and cornices. Entrance through.porch give access to early C19 staircase with stick balustrade. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p711; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol 10, p197-206; Wood-Jones R.B.: Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region: 1963: p114-115)

Listing NGR: SP4414447585