The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, NETTING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046257
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, NETTING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046257
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, NETTING STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, NETTING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hook Norton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 35248 33143
Details
HOOK NORTON NETTING STREET SP3533 (South side) 10/53 The Manor House 08/12/55 (Formerly listed under Knitting Street) - II Manor House. Datestone 1636/RA. Coursed regular ironstone rubble with Welsh slate roof laid to diminishing courses. Paired stone stacks. Stone copings. L-plan: Kitchen, hall, parlour range and service wing. Garden front of 2 storeys with 3 gabled dormers, flush with wall face. Three bays. Entrance to right of centre into hall. 2-storey canted bay window to parlour end. 4-light stone mullioned window with hood mould and label stops to hall. 2- and 3-light stone mullioned windows with hood-moulds and label stops to front and rear. Sundial below central dormer. Cellar beneath parlour. Rear has c.1935 porch and apsidal stair turret. Interior: Original plan of kitchen, screens, hall and parlour is still discernible. Wooden spiral stair to service wing. Stone fireplaces, mostly renewed and re-set. History: In the C17 the Manor House belonged to the Austin family. The datestone with crest is attributed to Robert Austin who is recorded as rebilding his house at this time. (Wood-Jones, R.B. - Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963, p265). Dickins, H.A. - History of Hook Norton, 1928, pp75, 184).
Listing NGR: SP3524333145
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244064
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dickins, M, History of Hook Norton, (1928), 75 184
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 265
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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