The Manor House

The Manor House is a manor house located on Mill Lane in Adderbury, dating from the late 16th or 17th century, likely built for the Bustard family and incorporating earlier elements. It was restored in 1887 by Aston Webb and underwent alterations and extensions around 1930. The building is constructed of coursed squared marlstone with marlstone and limestone ashlar dressings, topped with Stonesfield-slate roofs and stone and brick stacks.

The main range, which may include a hall house, features shallow flanking wings and additional ranges at the rear. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has an irregular front with a central section that has five windows; the three left bays project below a parapet. Most of the limestone-mullioned windows, which have hollow chamfers, are likely from the 16th or 17th century and are connected by continuous moulded strings that serve as label moulds.

To the left, there is a gabled wing with renewed marlstone-mullioned windows on three floors. A lower gabled projection to the right contains 16th or 17th-century mullioned windows with labels. All windows feature leaded glazing. The gables have plain parapets, and the right end wall includes a gabled porch that contains the main entrance, which bears a monogram and the date 1887. This porch connects to a long single-storey billiards-room range that has large transomed stone-mullioned windows.

At the rear of the main range, there are subsidiary ranges and additions. The roofs are adorned with numerous stone-based stacks featuring tall clustered 19th-century brick shafts, most set diagonally, with some displaying spiral and chevron decorations. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to contain traces of an open hall, a large four-centre-arched stone fireplace, and some late 16th-century plasterwork in a bay window.