Home Farmhouse

SP4528 DUNS TEW 9/252 Home Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse, formerly manor house. 1694 (or 1624) on datestone and early C18. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and some wooden lintels; artificial stone-slate roof with stone-and-brick gable stacks. 3-unit plan in 2 builds. 2 storeys plus attic. Irregular front (now facing garden) has a chamfered stone doorway in bay 2, with a label below which is inscribed "RB/16(?)4"; above it are 2 moulded stone stair windows, and in bay one are 3-light stone-mullioned windows with labels to ground and first floors, plus a casement to the semi-basement. Between the first-floor windows is a 3-row dovecote. Right half of front has a second doorway flanked by 3-light casements, and at first floor is a 2-light casement; all have wooden lintels. Steep-pitched roof has marlstone gable parapets with projecting moulded kneelers. Left gable wall is partly banded with marlstone, and has a 2-light stone-mullioned window in the gable. Regular rear has 2 bays of stone-mullioned windows, including a cellar window, and 2 bays of casements plus the present main entrance. Interior not inspected but noted as having an open fireplace inscribed with the date 1650, and stop-chamfered beams. Formerly the manor house of the Raves family. Datestone noted as commemorating Raves Burrows. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p213)

Listing NGR: SP4563828502