Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Large house. 6 related planning applications.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- low-crypt-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Type
- Large house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House is a large house built in the mid-18th century, possibly around the same time as the stables, which have a date stone inscribed "Gascoigne Frederick 1755". It is believed to incorporate an older building, although little structural evidence remains. The south side features an extension with an early 19th-century Gothick porch, and a Gothick wing that was rebuilt between 1904 and 1905. The house was refurbished in the early 1980s.
The exterior is finished in stucco, which was renewed in the 1980s, with stone dressings, hipped stone slate roofs, and stuccoed chimneys. The east front has a tall central block of three storeys and four bays, with band courses and a moulded eaves cornice. This central block is flanked by two-storey, two-bay wings that are slightly set back, each featuring a single band course below the parapet. The windows are three-pane sashes, with those on the ground floor renewed in the 1980s, while the side wings have smaller sashes. All sashes have stucco voussoir heads with keyblocks, which were reworked in the 1980s, and the windows above the central first-floor openings are slightly arched.
The two central bays are slightly advanced and include a blind lunette containing a three-light wooden casement at the second floor level, along with a smaller lunette featuring a bust in the pediment above. The pediment is topped with a stone ball finial. The south front has an early 19th-century bay at the centre, complete with a coped gable and ball finial. This bay features a blind lunette in the gable, a three-light stone mullion window with a Tudor hoodmould at the second floor level, and an ashlar oriel window in Tudor style below. The ground floor boasts a fine early 19th-century half-glazed door with a radiating semi-circular fanlight, along with an ashlar porch in Gothick style that includes battlements, a patterned frieze on quatrefoil shafts, and a four-centred arch at the front. To the left, there is a rubble stone wing, rebuilt in the early 20th century, featuring a parapet and two bays of tripartite Gothick sashes.
Inside, the house contains a fine mid-18th-century panelled room with a dentil cornice. The fireplace has an eared architrave surround and a moulded panel above, flanked by tall fluted Doric pilasters that support a triglyph frieze.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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