Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 Manor house.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- over-tower-hawthorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Manor house
- Period
- C17
- Address
- Manor House, Shilton
- OS grid reference
- SP 265 084
- Coordinates
- 51.77402, -1.61669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House, dated 1678 and associated with the Knapp family, is a notable example of 17th-century architecture. Constructed from coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, it features a Cotswold stone roof and represents a late instance of the traditional gabled style. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a continuous string course over the ground and first floors, from which drip returns frame the windows. The facade consists of a 2:1:2 bay arrangement, with cross mullion windows that have edge chamfers, although the mullions are only present in the attic and the left-hand windows on the ground floor.
A projecting gabled tower porch adds to the structure's character, along with two attic gables topped with ball finials at the coped verges. The house features ashlar end chimneys and a central mid-19th century doorway. Inside, there is a well-designed staircase with short landing flights, heavy turned balusters, and a made handrail topped with ball finials. The interior also boasts three Tudor-arch fireplaces, including a particularly fine one on the first floor to the west. At the rear, there is a gabled stair turret, two dormer gables, and a Victorian service wing that includes some matching details to the north and an angled bay on the ground floor.
Local climate
Manor House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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