Manor Farmhouse And Attached Farm Building

ARDLEY SOMERTON ROAD SP52NW (South side) 3/6 Manor Farmhouse and attached farm building - II

Farmhouse, now house. Early/mid C18, incorporating earlier elements. Limestone rubble, and coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings; concrete-pantile and Welsh-slate roofs with stone-and-brick stacks. 3-unit plan with rear outshut. 2 storeys plus attic. The 3 bays to left of the 4-window front are in coursed stone and have a symmetrical arrangement of sashes, with a central doorway below a blocked window; all openings have stone flat arches, the entrance has a folding 6-panel door with overlight, and the windows have 12-pane sashes except that to right of the door which has been widened to take a 16-pane sash. Small cellar windows flank entrance steps. The rubble fourth bay, which probably incorporates C17 work, has 16-pane C19 sash windows at a lower level. The continuous hipped roof has end stacks and a further stack to rear, all with stone bases. Rear has a wide contemporary outshut, now with altered openings. The 6-bay farm building, attached to right, breaks forward at an angle and has a corrugated-asbestos roof, half hipped to left; the front has a loft door and there are stable doors and windows to rear plus a loft door leading to a granary. Interior: large open fireplace and stop-chamfered beam in lower bay; much mid-C18 joinery, including 2 half-panelled rooms and a first-floor room with complete fielded panelling; butt-purlin roofs in house and farm building. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p8)

Listing NGR: SP5405527437