Prescote Manor

PRESCOTE SP4646 14/151 Prescote Manor 08/12/55 - II

Manor house now house. Said to have been built or rebuilt in 1692 for John Danvers. Datestone JD 1691 over front entrance. House remodelled and additional 2 bays to south built in early C19. Ironstone ashlar. Hipped and gabled slate roof. Stone internal stacks with renewed brick shafts. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys. 5-window range. C19/C20 stone porch on right has panelled glazed door. To left two C20 mullioned and transomed windows flank a blocked opening. First floor has 5 renewed wood mullioned and transomed windows. Attic floor has 5 wood casement windows. Stone flat arch lintels throughout. Left gable has 3 tall sash windows with semi-circular arched heads to ground floor and 4 similar windows to first floor. Panelled/glazed door on left has semi-circular arched head. Moulded stone eaves cornice. Interior: C17 panelling said to be from Warkworth Castle, Northants (VCH). Bolection moulded marble fireplace with arms of the Danvers family and the initials and date J.D. 1718. Motto "Nec misere nec laute". C18 straight flight string staircase and C17 dog-leg stair with some renewed treads. In kitchen carving in oak of a sow and 2 pigs, possibly part of a misericord. Arms of the Danvers family on fireplace show a chevron between molets, quartering Neville, a saltire and a ring in centre. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p560; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol X, p208; Gardner's Gazette 1852)

Listing NGR: SP4734846886