Ascott Manor

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STADHAMPTON, Ascott, B480 (South side), Ascott Manor

(Formerly listed as Ascott Farmhouse)

17/04/86

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Early C17, remodelled and extended c.1800 and later. Rendered limestone rubble walls with limestone ashlar dressings; old plain-tile roofs with brick stacks. 2-unit lobby-entry plan, extended to L-plan and later infilled. 2 storeys plus attics. 2-window entrance front with plinth, parapet and added pilaster strips, has central b-panel door under a stone canopy, flanking 16-pane sashes, and 12-pane sashes above, all set beneath C17 stone labels. Roof has a central clustered stack on a stone base and gable parapets. Right gable wall, facing garden, has similar windows plus a 3-light stone-mullioned gable window, and continues to a 3-window range of c.1800 with a central full-height tripartite sash, a stone arched entrance to left with recessed doorway and ornamental overlight, a 12-pane sash to right, and sashes of 12,16 and 12 panes at first floor, all with re-used labels. Left gable of front range has a 2-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned window with no label. 2-window left rear range may be C17, and has 16-pane sashes plus remains of blocked stone-mullioned windows, and a doorway with a chamfered stone surround. Lower range further to rear has brick segmental arches. Interior: front range has Tudor-arched stone fireplaces, back to back, and moulded beams. Garden range has a double-height stair hall with plaster modillion cornice and an open-well stair. Butt-purlin roof to front range. Formerly part of the Ascott estate. (Ascott Park is included in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade II; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VII, p.121).

Listing NGR: SU6136698131