Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1988. Manor house.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- nether-turret-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1988
- Type
- Manor house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is an early 18th-century building with later alterations. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a Stonesfield-slate roof with ashlar stacks. The house features a double-pile plan with a subsidiary range and stands two storeys plus an attic. The symmetrical entrance front of the taller main range has five windows and includes a chamfered plinth, rusticated quoins, and ashlar flat arches. The windows are 12-pane sashes, taller on the ground floor, while the central arched doorway, which has rusticated quoins and voussoirs, is a 20th-century alteration. The plinth contains two hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned cellar windows and extends around the range, as does the moulded wooden cornice of the steep hipped roof.
The wider return front, which likely served as the original entrance, has similar sashes throughout, except for a large late 18th-century canted bay window that occupies the two left bays on the ground floor. This side features three hipped roof dormers. To the right is a plain two-window subsidiary range with sashes and French windows, along with a longer parallel range at the rear. The left return of the entrance front is irregular but includes additional roof dormers.
Inside, original features comprise a broad dogleg stair with a closed string, square handrail, and turned balusters, a narrower stair leading to the attic, and two panelled first-floor rooms with plain fireplaces. The house is said to have been built around 1702 for Thomas Rowney, who was the Member of Parliament for Oxford from 1695 to 1722. An inscribed cornerstone on the subsidiary range appears to include the date 1702.
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