Harcourt House And Attached Walls And Outbuildings

STANTON HARCOURT HARCOURT HOUSE SP4105 21/318 Harcourt House and attached 12/09/55 walls and outbuildings (Formerly listed as Harcourt House and outbuildings)

GV II*

Gatehouse and stables of former manor house. C15 and mid C16, for Harcourt family. Gatehouse in centre of front: c.1540, remodelled c.1868. Rendered over limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; end stacks of stone finished in C20 brick. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Label mould, with Harcourt arms to stops, over hollow-chamfered central archway:. archway infilled in 1868 with arched doorway. Mid C16 canted oriel window above, with hollow-chamfered stone mullions to lights and Harcourt arms carved on base, is flanked by hood moulds over 3-light hollow-chamfered stone-nullioned windows above similar mid C19 windows. Extension to left of gatehouse built 1953. Extension to right of 1868 incorporates C15 stables in centre: of similar materials, with ridge stacks, except stables of coursed limestone rubble; of 2-storey, 11-window range; similar C16 three-light window above C15 segmental-headed archway with head corbels to former stable, Rear: block of 1868 of similar materials and 2-storey, 2-window range with sashes and hipped roof. Interior: mid C16 moulded stone fireplace and chamfered stone fireplace in gatehouse (roof not inspected). Mid C19 staircase, fireplaces, and library to rear. Subsidiary features: C15 wall to rear left, approximately 80 metres long; of coursed limestone rubble, with crenellated parapet, between churchyard and house; hood moulds over 2 chamfered arched doorways. Mid C18 wall, approximately 5 metres long and of coursed limestone rubble with round-arched doorway, extends from rear of house to outbuilding, of weatherboarding with hipped thatch roof; attached C18 cartshed of limestone rubble with gabled stone slate roof and 8-bay collar-truss roof with butt purlins and jowled posts; C15 limestone rubble wall, crenellated with chamfered archway, extends approximately 10 metres from rear wall of cartshed. History: the Harcourt family have lived here since the mid C12. After the death of Sir Philip Harcourt in 1688 the house was left to fall into a ruinous state and was mostly pulled down in 1750, when Nuneham Courtenay was begun. Harcourt House became the family home again in 1948. A plan of 1726 shows that the stable and gatehouse range stood to the north of the main building, which were grouped around a courtyard, of which only the Great Kitchen, Pope's Tower, Manor Farmhouse and dovecote (q.v.) remain. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.782; National Monuments Record; Bodleian Library, M.S. Top, Oxon for late C18 and C18 drawings).

Listing NGR: SP4159105673