The Manor

The Manor is a manor house, now a house, dating to the early 15th century, with a left wing rebuilt around 1500, and 16th-century rear extensions. It is situated on Chalgrove Mill Lane. The house is constructed of timber framing, featuring tension bracing and jettied gable ends to the side wings. The left wing has close studding, while the right wing exhibits a crown post structure. The roof is gabled and covered in old tiles, with a 16th-century brick ridge stack and a right-end stack finished in brick.

The house consists of a hall flanked by wings. The front has two stories and a 4-window range with a 1:2:1 fenestration pattern. A 20th-century door is set within a largely restored moulded frame, with an original jamb to the left. The windows are also 20th-century replacements. Rear ranges dating to the 16th century extend from the main house, comprising a single bay to the left and two bays to the right. These ranges feature square timber framing with brick infill. A mid-19th-century outshut is located at the rear.

The interior of the right service wing displays moulded quartered beams and an open fireplace in the front room. The roof above is a 4-bay arch-braced collar-truss construction with concave pointed windbraces and stop-chamfered clasped purlins. A chamfered door frame is present within, and a garderobe shute is located behind the third truss from the front. The early 15th-century hall has a finely detailed 5-bay collar-truss roof with arch braces springing from beneath the wall plate, two pairs of similar windbraces, moulded butt purlins to each bay, and seating for a smoke louvre in the central bay. A screens passage is bordered by a timber-framed wall; it features a chamfered door frame to the right and early 15th-century screens to the left, with a moulded frame and 5 bays of grooved planks divided by miniature buttresses. An early 15th-century moulded rear doorway has carved spandrels. The ground floor of the late 16th century has a full set of chamfered and stopped beams and joists and an open fireplace, while the first floor has a late 16th-century stone fireplace and a central timber-framed partition with painted grey studwork. The left parlour wing includes quartered roll-moulded beams with cusped joists, a late 16th-century stone fireplace, and a late 17th-century painted and grained paneling in the front room, with a similar fireplace and an inserted ceiling above. A collar-truss dating to around 1500 is present with curved windbraces and a chamfered tie beam. A queen-post truss is featured in the 16th-century rear extension. 17th-century ribbed doors are found throughout the house. The right wing likely predates the hall range, with the roof design showing affinities with the Manor House at Ewelme. The site's first manor house was built between 1232 and 1240 for John de Plessis, Earl of Warwick.