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

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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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