Tower And Wall Approximately 20 Metres North East Of Rycote House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A Tudor Tower and wall.
Tower And Wall Approximately 20 Metres North East Of Rycote House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-loft-burdock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Tower and wall
- Period
- Tudor
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
GREAT HASELEY RYCOTE SP6OSE 6/72 Tower and wall approx. 20m. NE 18/07/63 of Rycote House
GV II*
Tower and wall. Early C16. Diaper brickwork with stone dressings. 2-storey octagonal tower, with stone quoins, moulded strings and copings, has small 4-centre arched windows with labels and a richly-moulded 4-centred arched doorway. Attached wall to right has the re-set remains of a stone doorcase of c.1700 with eared architrave and carved surround including lion-mask consoles and festoons. To right the wall breaks forward with an octagonal angle buttress. The remnant of the main block of the mansion probably re-built after 1521 by Sir John Heron, Treasurer to Henry VIII, and/or after 1539 by Sir John William later Baron Williams of Thame. The house is shown in views of c.1695 by Winstanley and of 1714 by Kip. It was burned down in 1745. (J. Salmon, Rycote Chapel, MPBW Guidebook, 1967; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.748-9).
Listing NGR: SP6669504740
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