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
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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