Manor House

SP 60 SW CUDDESDON AND DENTON CUDDESDON 3/13 Manor House 18/07/63 (Formerly listed as Manor Farmhouse) GV II

Manor house. Late C17 and early C19. Limestone ashlar and rubble with ashlar dressings; old plain-tile roof and brick stacks. L plan, extended. 2 storeys plus attic. Ashlar 5-window front, said to have been added in 1805, has central 6-panel door and sashes to 3 floors, full height and wider at ground floor, with first-floor plat-band and plain parapet. Projecting stack on left gable-wall. Right gable-wall, rear, and rear wing to left have gable parapets with bracket kneelers and pairs of cross windows or their remains. Surrounds have roll-mouldings to head and sides. Further wing of rubble with timber lintels projects to left from rear wing, and in the angle with the gable of the main range is a C18 semi-octagonal stair tower with moulded corbelling at the eaves. Single-storey service wings entered fruther to left and rear. Interior: Two ground floor rooms have fielded panelling and 2 stairs have C18 turned balusters. A late C17 stair with winders and turned balusters rises from first floor to attics. The roof to the main block masks the surviving double-gabled roof with central flat which has 2 rows of butt purlins. The house is said to have been rebuilt after the Civil War by a former Solicitor General to Charles II. (V.C.H. : Oxfordshire, Vol V, p.101).

Listing NGR: SP6002302968