Tubney Manor Farmhouse

FYFIELD AND TUBNEY OAKESMERE SP40SW (East side) Tubney 2/78 Tubney Manor Farmhouse

• II

Farmhouse. Early C17, later C17/early C18 rear extensions. Uncoursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; stone external end stack to right; C20 brick lateral stack to front. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys. 2-window range in right half of front. Timber lintels over early C20 half-glazed door and C20 three-light casements: segmental brick arch over similar C20 window right of door. Rear service wings of similar materials flank central mid C18 brewhouse, of limestone rubble with brick dressings and hipped old tile roof. Interior: 3-unit front range has chamfered and stepped ogee-stopped beams throughout: transverse partitions have chamfered and stopped doorframes: collar-truss roof with clasped purlins and windbraces. Rear range has stop-chamfered beams, early C18 fielded 4-panelled door and brewhouse open fireplace. Valuable survival of a 3-unit plan with original partitions and doorways. Has a moat on 2 sides and had a drawbridge until 1841: the manor house on the site decayed in C16. (V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.IV, p.379; John Brookes, "Tubney, Oxfordshire: medieval and later settlement": Oxonensia, Vol.49, (1984), pp.121-32)

Listing NGR: SP4467100984