Manor House and Attached Garden Wall to Rear is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Manor house. 1 related planning application.
Manor House and Attached Garden Wall to Rear
- WRENN ID
- bitter-cobble-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Manor House and Attached Garden Wall to Rear, Overy Lane, Dorchester, OX10 7HZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 582 940
- Coordinates
- 51.64193, -1.15949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a manor house, built in 1712, with extensions added in the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick with flared brick headers, some coursed clunch rubble, and has an old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. The building follows a double-depth lobby-entry plan.
The main front range has five windows and includes a datestone marking “D/WH/1712”. The central doorway is framed by an architrave with a canopy featuring key decoration and supported by console brackets. To the right of the door is a large canted bay window, and to the left are two three-light casement windows, all under segmental arches. The first floor has three corresponding three-light casement windows and two single-light windows. Three gabled dormers with 19th-century ornamental bargeboards are visible in the roof, with stacks positioned in line with the entrance and at the left gable. Parts of the left gable wall and the parallel rear range are of rubble construction with brick dressings and contain additional casement windows. All windows have leaded lights.
A hip-roofed extension, dating to approximately 1830, extends from the right end of the rear range. A garden wall, constructed in a header bond with red quoins and a dentil eaves course, runs from the right end of the house around the rear of a walled garden. This wall includes a two-storey canted bay window with sixteen-pane sashes and a dentil cornice. The garden is also partially enclosed by The Old Barn. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Manor House and Attached Garden Wall to Rear sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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