Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 December 1955. House. 7 related planning applications.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-moulding-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor House, Duns Tew, OX25 6JP
- OS grid reference
- SP 456 284
- Coordinates
- 51.95304, -1.33649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House is a manor house built around 1710, likely for Robert Dashwood, with alterations and extensions made in the 19th century. The building features coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, coursed squared marlstone, and brick, topped with Stonesfield-slate and Welsh-slate roofs that have ashlar and rendered stacks.
The main part of the house has a symmetrical five-window layout, consisting of two storeys plus an attic. It displays rusticated quoins, a storey band, and a moulded wooden cornice beneath a hipped roof. The first-floor windows are 12-pane sashes with moulded stone architraves and projecting keyblocks. The ground-floor openings have all been lowered to accommodate French windows, with the central opening, likely the original main entrance, featuring a more elaborate architrave. The roof includes three hipped roof dormers with two-light casements, as well as similar dormers at the ends.
To the right, there is a late-19th century range with four windows, consisting of one storey plus an attic. This section has ground-floor openings with full-height sashes, while the upper sashes rise into segmental pediments that are interrupted by tall keyblocks. A three-window rear wing, which extends from the left, is designed in a stone-mullioned style from around 1850 and includes a main entrance with a four-centre arch. The rear of the house combines marlstone and brick, and there are attached service ranges that include an octagonal brick dairy.
Inside, there is an open-well cantilevered stair from around 1850, along with 19th-century joinery, fireplaces, and plasterwork. The rear wing features two stone bolection-mould fireplaces from around 1700, which are likely re-used.
Local climate
Manor House 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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 — 7 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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