Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A Georgian Manor house. 10 related planning applications.

Manor House

WRENN ID
dreaming-plaster-quill
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
18 July 1963
Type
Manor house
Period
Georgian
Address
Manor House, Woodeaton, OX3 9TS
OS grid reference
SP 533 119
Coordinates
51.80398, -1.22722
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manor House, now a school, was built in 1775 for John Weyland, with a porch, east wing, and interior alterations made around 1790 by Sir John Soane. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with stone-slate roofs and features a double-pile plan that has been extended. The building stands three storeys tall with a symmetrical five-bay front. This facade includes a dentil cornice below the cills of the attic storey, an arched entrance with a door and fanlight flanked by narrow sash windows, and an Ionic tetrastyle Coade-stone portico. The first and second floors have corresponding triplet sash windows, while the ground-floor sashes in the second and fourth bays have arched heads. To the left, there is a single-storey kitchen wing. The shallow-pitched hipped roofs are set behind plain parapets.

At the rear, the seven-bay elevation has a basement storey, and the top storey features a mansard roof. The central bay is canted and includes three full-length sash windows with iron balconies at the upper-ground floor. The four-window wing is designed as a two-window, three-storey pavilion linked to a two-storey range, both featuring sashes and arched recesses at the upper-ground floor.

Inside, the entrance hall showcases paired doorways with panelled mahogany doors and delicate entablatures, a rams-head cornice, and a white marble fireplace with Ionic columns and inlaid vases in green-veined marble. The three principal rooms facing the rear also have similar doors and decoration, each with notable fireplaces: the drawing room features a white marble fireplace with a figurative central tablet and decorative baskets of fruit and musical instruments; the bay-ended library has festoons and brown marble inlay; and the dining room showcases grey marble inlay with ox heads and a vase on the central tablet. Other rooms contain 18th-century cornices and simpler fireplaces. The open-well staircase has cantilevered oak treads and a wrought-iron balustrade. The portico is signed "Coade London 1791". Soane's proposed balancing wing was never constructed.

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