Manor House
MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046307
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046307
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE
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:
- MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Duns Tew
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45695 28490
Details
SP4528 DUNS TEW 9/256 Manor House 08/12/55 GV II Manor house. Circa 1710 probably for Robert Dashwood, altered and extended C19. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, coursed squared marlstone and brick; Stonesfield-slate and Welsh-slate roofs with ashlar and rendered stacks. Complex plan of several builds. Main range is a symmetrical 5-window block, of 2 storeys plus attic, and has rusticated quoins, storeyband and a moulded wooden cornice below a hipped roof; 12-pane sashes at first floor have moulded stone architraves with projecting keyblocks, but similar ground-floor openings have all been lowered to take French windows, the central opening (probably originally the main entrance) having a more elaborate architrave. Roof has 3 hipped roof dormers with 2-light casements, and has similar dormers in the ends. A 4-window late-C19 range to right, of one storey plus attic, has similar ground-floor openings with full-height sashes, but the upper sashes rise into segmental pediments broken by tall keyblocks. 3-window rear wing, returning from left, is in stone-mullioned style of c.1850, and includes the 4-centre-arched main entrance. Rear of house is part marlstone and part brick, attached service ranges including an octagonal brick dairy. Interior: open-well cantilevered stair of c.1850; C19 joinery, fireplaces and plasterwork; 2 stone bolection-mould fireplaces of c.1700 (probably re-used) in rear wing. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp590-1; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p213)
Listing NGR: SP4559528337
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243983
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 213
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 590-1
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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