Manor Farmhouse and Attached Walls and Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Manor Farmhouse and Attached Walls and Gateway
- WRENN ID
- knotted-cobble-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse and Attached Walls and Gateway, Manor Farm Lane, Wroxton
- OS grid reference
- SP 389 416
- Coordinates
- 52.0717, -1.43253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse and attached walls and gateway is a 17th-century manor house, altered and extended in the 18th century. The walls and gateway are also of the 17th and 18th centuries. The walls are approximately 2 metres high, constructed of regular coursed ironstone rubble with stone coping. The piers have cornices and ball finials, and there are two clasping buttresses.
The farmhouse is built of coursed and squared coursed ironstone rubble, with steeply pitched stone slate roofs laid to diminishing courses. There are ridge stacks, one of blue brick, one rendered with a renewed brick shaft, and a stone ridge stack. Stone coped gables define the L-shaped plan. The two--storey, three-window front is oriented to the road. The original 17th-century section on the right is gabled to the road, while an 18th-century wing is attached to the left. The 17th-century section incorporates a 20th-century French door and a 3-light casement with a renewed wood lintel. A re-set 13th-century window of two lights, with a semi-circular wooden tympanum containing incised intersecting circles, is set within the gable. The 18th-century wing features an 18th-century sash window with a keyblock stone head, and a two-light stone mullioned window on the ground floor. Two sashes are on the first floor, above a pediment containing a round window.
On the west side (right) of the 17th-century section, the entrance is marked by a stable door with a wood lintel, flanked by four-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. Two 3-light similar windows are on the first floor.
The interior of the 17th-century section features an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered beam, a partially renewed wooden winder staircase, and stone flag floors. The 18th-century section contains 18th-century panelled cupboards, boxed beams, sashes with panelled reveals and shutters, and a moulded wood cornice. This was reputedly the home of the Belet family, and figures in the history of Wroxton Priory; the Sacheverell family occupied it in the 17th century. The house was assessed at 7 hearths in 1665, and is shown on maps of 1677 and 1684.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse and Attached Walls and Gateway receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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