The Manor Preparatory School

The Manor Preparatory School is a large house, now functioning as a school, dating from the late 17th century. It features a combination of rendered limestone rubble and brick on the right side, topped with a steeply-pitched and hipped old tile roof, and has brick stacks at the rear and internally. The building has a central staircase plan and stands two storeys high with an attic, presenting a symmetrical five-window facade. The entrance includes a 20th-century door framed by a late 18th-century pedimented architrave supported by engaged Tuscan columns. The windows are late 18th-century six-pane sashes, complemented by a moulded wood cornice and similar sashes in three hipped roof dormers. The left side wall features a late 18th-century sash window and a Venetian window with a keyed stone architrave. At the rear right, there is a late 18th-century two-storey bay constructed of coursed limestone rubble and brick, featuring a gabled old tile roof, a brick end stack, and sash windows. Additionally, there is a late 18th-century one-storey service range at the rear made of coursed limestone rubble with a gabled old tile roof, which has been remodelled in the 20th century. A late 18th-century service room, or wash-house, is located to the rear left and is built of similar materials with a hipped roof.

Inside, the hall showcases some 18th-century panelling and an open-well staircase with turned newels that have gadrooned bases, elaborate fret-cut balusters, and barley-sugar balusters. The room to the right is panelled with fielded bolection-moulded panels. On the first floor, there is a panelled room to the front left and a bolection-moulded stone fireplace to the right. A two-light window from the early 14th century has been reset in the rear wall. The site was originally owned by Abingdon Abbey and became known as Calcott's Place; the house was rebuilt after its destruction during the Civil War.