Manor Court Cottage Rectory Farmhouse

Manor house, now a farmhouse and house, likely dating from around 1400, with significant alterations in the early 17th century and later additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. Constructed of coursed limestone and marlstone, with wooden and rendered lintels, it has Stonesfield-slate and artificial stone-slate roofs and brick stacks. The building forms an L-shaped plan, incorporating a 15th-century open-hall range, later extended to create a U-shaped layout.

The main range, one arm of the U-shape, has a two-story front facade constructed of partly-banded squared rubble, showing numerous earlier alterations. A 6-panel door is centrally positioned within a 19th-century wooden porch, flanked by 2- and 3-light windows with 20th-century casements set below rendered brick flat arches. The roof features stacks at both gables and to the right of centre, with two hipped 20th-century roof dormers. The right end of this range was rebuilt in the 20th century. The hall range, returning from the left end, has renewed casements with wooden lintels facing the courtyard, a secondary entrance, and a blocked doorway with a chamfered limestone-ashlar surround. The left side has 19th-century casements of one and two lights, some with chamfered lintels. The rear range, likely added in the early 17th century and originally a single unit attached only at the corner, has been substantially altered and extended to the left, now forming Manor Court Cottage; all openings now have 20th-century casements, although the roof retains Stonesfield slates.

Inside the main range, heavy chamfered spine beams remain, in one room supporting heavy flat late-medieval joists on one side, and heavy stop-chamfered joists on the other, spanning into a lateral beam. A fine stone 4-centre arched fireplace with recessed spandrels and flanking Tuscan half columns is also present. The hall range retains one truss from the original roof of around 1400, originally a raised-cruck form with hollow-chamfered arched bracing to the collar. Part of one foot has been cut away, and some smoke-blackened purlins and heavy curved winbraces remain in the roof space. This roof structure shares similarities with the contemporary roof of the Tithe Barn at Manor Farm, Upper Heyford. Manor Court Cottage retains a large inglenook fireplace, heavy stop-chamfered spine beams with chamfered joists, and two re-set doorheads, one from a 14th-century trefoil-headed door.