Manor House and attached front wall is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Manor house. 5 related planning applications.
Manor House and attached front wall
- WRENN ID
- slow-transept-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1985
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Manor House and attached front wall, 15, Mill Lane, Old Marston, OX3 0PY
- OS grid reference
- SP 526 089
- Coordinates
- 51.77648, -1.23879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century manor house, with some earlier fabric. The front of the house is limestone ashlar, while the sides are built from coursed squared rubble. It has old plain-tile roofs and stone stacks. The building likely follows a central-stair plan. The symmetrical front facade has three windows, a plinth, and a storey band. It features a central doorway with a rectangular overlight, and twelve-pane sash windows. The roof is shallow-pitched, with flanking stacks that have moulded caps, and a lateral stack rising from the rear slope. A single-storey range, built of rubble and covered with tiles, adjoins the right side. A rear range and a rear wing, probably dating from an earlier period, have casement windows.
The interior has not been inspected.
A low front wall, constructed with a moulded coping, runs along the front, featuring square corner piers and returns.
The house may incorporate parts of an earlier manor house built by Unton Croke and used as Fairfax's headquarters during the siege of Oxford in 1645. The Treaty for the Surrender of Oxford was signed there in 1646.
Local climate
Manor House and attached front wall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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