Manor Farm House

Manor Farm House is a farmhouse with an attached farm building, now part of the house, dating from the late 16th century and altered in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It features timber-framing and squared coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, topped by an old plain-tile roof with brick ridge stacks. The building is laid out in an L-shape and has two storeys. The front has an irregular four-window arrangement, including a flush four-panel door to the right of centre, a three-light casement to the right, a pair of four-pane sash windows to the left, and a 12-pane sash window at the extreme left, with four two-light casements above. The wall is constructed of 18th and 19th-century rubble with timber lintels.

The left gable wall, made of late 16th-century stonework with ashlar dressings, features a projecting quoined stack with two brick diagonal shafts and blocked ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows: a two-light window on both the ground and first floors, and a single light in the gable. The right gable wall is made of 18th-century banded rubble and ashlar. The rear of the house is rubble with flat stone arches at the ground floor and Flemish-bond brickwork above, likely replacing close-studding, of which two posts remain. A two-bay rear wing extends to the right, continuous with a two-bay farm building. The range is weatherboarded on the right and at the end, while the left wall has exposed timber-framing: the house wing has close studding over a one-storey rubble base, and the farm building features framing in panels with curved braces, now resting on a storey-height rubble base but originally lower.

Inside, there is a moulded-stone Tudor arched fireplace and remnants of a second fireplace in the late 16th-century gable wall, as well as a large 17th-century open fireplace with a bread oven. The trusses in the main range rise from posts, with some arched braces to the tie-beams. The rear wing has an exposed roof structure with curved wind-braces to a single row of butt purlins and arched braces to the tie-beams. The end frames of the wing and farm building are adjacent, with mortices indicating a slightly later date for the latter. The front wall of the main range has certainly been rebuilt and may have replaced full-height framing. Historically, the farm was a benefaction to Queens College Oxford in the 15th and 16th centuries, the former owners of the property.