Manor House

HORLEY CHURCH LANE SP4143 (East side) 23/97 Manor House 08/12/55 GV II

Manor house, now house. On the site of the Prebendal Manor House, C16/C17 with remodelled east wing of c.1700 probably for Nathanial Austin. Ironstone ashiar and squared coursed ironstone. Hipped and gabled slate and Stonesfield slate roofs. Stone ridge and end stacks with blue brick shafts. L-plan. 2 storeys plus attics, Entrance front. 5-window range. Central entrance has panelled-glazed door and overlight with geometrically patterned glazing. Keyblock head and open segmental pediment. Entrance is flanked by pairs of sashes with stone architrave surrounds with keyblock stone heads. Flush wood-frames. 5 similar first floor windows. 3 pedimented roof dormers. Moulded stone eaves cornice. Flat band to first floor. Stone quoins. Elevation on left facing lane. 2 builds. 7-window range altogether, 3- and 4-light stone mullioned windows have casements with lead cames, crown glass, wrought-iron casement fasteners and springs. Most windows have hood moulds and label stops. Rear. Entrance has original ledged and battened door. Hood mould and diamond shaped label stops, that to right partly obscured by later C17 wing. Chamfered stope piinth. 2- and 3-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. Lead cames, crown glass, wrought-iron casement fasteners and springs. Interior. C17 open-well staircase and part of winder back staircase. Stone fireplaces with 4-centred heads, and a bolection moulded fireplace. C17 and early C18 panelling, some bolection moulded. Sash windows seats, panelled reveals, shutters with draw bars and butterfly hinges. Cellar, John Austin bought the house from Richard Light in 1624. Later John Austin lived here. In 1741 Edward Metcalfe lived here. James Stockton bought the house in 1892. A notable example of a C17 house with a c.1700. Photographs in NMR. (Buildings in England: 0xfordhsire; 1974, p653; VCH; Oxfordshire; Vol X, pp123-4; Wood-Jones, R.B., Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963, p220; Macnamara, F.N., Memorials of the Darwers Family, 1895, p409)

Listing NGR: SP4168243857