Wendlebury House And Wendlebury Lodge

SP51NE 3/136 26/11/51

WENDLEBURY CHURCH LANE (North side) Wendlebury House and Wendlebury Lodge (Formerly listed as Wendlebury House)

II

Manor house, now 2 houses. Early and mid C18, probably with an earlier core. Limestone ashlar, squared coursed rubble and random rubble; plain-tile roof with rebuilt stacks. Single range with rear additions. 2 storeys plus attic. Symmetrical 5-window ashlar section, to left of front, breaks forward slightly under a parapet and cornice, and has rusticated quoins, storeyband and moulded architraves; panelled door with ornamental overlight is sheltered by a stone canopy on Tuscan columns with corresponding pilasters; all windows have 12-pane sashes. 6-window range to right in squared rubble has an earlier front with a dentil cornice and storeyband; sashes have wooden lintels including one blind window; a large window at ground floor is an early C20 alteration. Continuous steep-pitched roof over both sections has hipped roof dormer. Rubble rear wall is largely obscured by additions but retains, to rear of ashlar section, some leaded casements, and to rear of rubble section some large lunettes. Interior: mid C18 dog-leg stair with turned balusters and ramped handrails; late C18 Adam-style fireplace. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.Vl, p.339; Buildings of England: 0xfordshire, p.832).

Listing NGR: SP5603319698