Prescote Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. Manor house. 8 related planning applications.
Prescote Manor
- WRENN ID
- woven-quartz-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Prescote Manor, OX17 1PF
- OS grid reference
- SP 473 468
- Coordinates
- 52.11828, -1.3099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Prescote Manor is a manor house, now a private residence, believed to have been built or rebuilt in 1692 for John Danvers, with a datestone marked JD 1691 above the front entrance. The house was remodeled and had two additional bays added to the south in the early 19th century. It is constructed of ironstone ashlar and features a hipped and gabled slate roof, with stone internal stacks that have renewed brick shafts. The building has a double-depth plan, stands three storeys tall, and has a five-window range.
On the right side, there is a 19th or 20th-century stone porch that includes a panelled glazed door. To the left, two 20th-century mullioned and transomed windows flank a blocked opening. The first floor features five renewed wood mullioned and transomed windows, while the attic has five wood casement windows. Throughout the building, stone flat arch lintels are present. The left gable displays three tall sash windows with semi-circular arched heads on the ground floor and four similar windows on the first floor. A panelled and glazed door on the left also has a semi-circular arched head, and there is a moulded stone eaves cornice.
Inside, there is 17th-century panelling said to have originated from Warkworth Castle in Northamptonshire. A bolection moulded marble fireplace bears the arms of the Danvers family, along with the initials and date J.D. 1718, and the motto "Nec misere nec laute." The interior also features an 18th-century straight flight string staircase and a 17th-century dog-leg stair with some renewed treads. In the kitchen, there is an oak carving of a sow and two pigs, possibly part of a misericord. The arms of the Danvers family on the fireplace depict a chevron between molets, quartering Neville, a saltire, and a ring in the center.
Local climate
Prescote Manor sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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