Towersey Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Towersey Manor House
- WRENN ID
- heavy-basalt-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Towersey Manor House, 45, Manor Road, OX9 3QR
- OS grid reference
- SP 737 050
- Coordinates
- 51.73973, -0.93268
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Towersey Manor House is a house that likely dates from the early 19th century, with later 19th-century additions to the left and rear. It is constructed of uncoursed rubble stone with brick dressings and features a slate hipped roof with various brick stacks. The house has a double-depth plan and is two stories high, with a three-window range and an addition to the left that has a two-window range.
The central part of the original block has a glazed double door with a decorative fanlight, and a rendered porch supported by Doric pilasters and a cornice. To the left and right of the original block are unhorned tripartite sashes with glazing bars and cambered brick heads. All other openings feature 12-pane unhorned sashes with cambered brick heads. The eaves are bracketed, and the guttering is made of cast-iron with a cornice-moulded design.
Inside, the house has 19th-century decorative plaster ceilings in "Jacobean" and "Adam" styles in the ground floor rooms. There is also a staircase, likely from the early 20th century, leading to a double-height hall at the rear, which has a glazed saucer-dome skylight.
Local climate
Towersey Manor House 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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