NUMBERS 1, 1A, 2, 3 AND 4 LE HALL PLACE PLUS ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATEPIERS

NUMBERS 1, 1A, 2, 3 AND 4 LE HALL PLACE PLUS ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATEPIERS, 1, 1A, 2, 3 AND 4, MANOR ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1046359
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1, 1A, 2, 3 AND 4 LE HALL PLACE PLUS ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATEPIERS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1, 1A, 2, 3 AND 4 LE HALL PLACE PLUS ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATEPIERS, 1, 1A, 2, 3 AND 4, MANOR ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1046359
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-May-1988
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1, 1A, 2, 3 AND 4 LE HALL PLACE PLUS ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATEPIERS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1, 1A, 2, 3 AND 4 LE HALL PLACE PLUS ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATEPIERS, 1, 1A, 2, 3 AND 4, MANOR ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1, 1A, 2, 3 AND 4 LE HALL PLACE PLUS ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND GATEPIERS, 1, 1A, 2, 3 AND 4, MANOR ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Adderbury
National Grid Reference:: SP 46562 35496

Details

SP4635 ADDERBURY MANOR R0AD (North side) Adderbury West 6/80 Nos. 1, 1A, 2, 3 and 4 Le Hall 08/12/55 Place plus attached forecourt walls and gatepiers (Formerly listed as la Hall Place together with Stable Range)

GV II* Manor house, walls and gatepiers. Probably C14 and C15, enlarged and re-modelled late C17; altered c.l803, c.1870 and subdivided mid C20; gatepiers late C17. Marlstone ashlar with some limestone-ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate and Welsh-slate roofs with ashlar stacks. H-plan enlarged to double-depth plan. 2 storeys plus attics. Symmetrical 7-window front has wide flanking gabled wings with 6-light mullioned windows at ground floor, pairs of stone cross windows at first floor, and 3-light mullioned gable windows; 3-window recessed central section has large stone cross windows plus a central gabled porch with a 4-centre arched doorway with recessed spandrels and label in marlstone ashlar. Windows are all of c.1870 with limestone-ashlar dressings and sheet glazing. Central section of the steep-pitchad roof his 3 tall stone-gabled dormers of c.1803 with 2-light stone-mullioned windows. Large multiple stack rising to right of the central range appears to relate to an earlier steeper roof. Right return wall of right wing, facing road, has similar C19 mullioned windows. Rear range includes 2 assymetrically-placed gables with 2-light C17 mullioned windows, but elsewhere has further large C19 cross windows, except for 2 small 2-light windows which may be partly C17. Irregular left side of house includes a flat-roofed central infill section, but gable of rear range retains a small early wood-framed window. Interior: wide C17 dogleg stair with heavy turned balusters and carved ball finials; early-C18 bolection-panelled first-floor room with matching architraves and fireplace surround; small triangular C14 stone vault incorporating wave mouldings. Noted as having a C14 doorway with ballflower ornament and a plainer arched doorway, plus C17 and C18 panelling in several rooms. Limestone-coped marlstone ashlar forecourt walls extend around 3 sides of forecourt, approximately 2.5 metres high to right but reduced to approximately I.3 metres on the other 2 sides, with a wide axial gateway plus narrower blocked gateways near the outer ends of the side walls. All gates have tall ashlar gatepiers, pilastered on 3 sides with the front and rear pilasters rising from moulded pedestals; limestone entablatures incorporating pulvinated friezes break round the pilasters and support ball finials on tall moulded bases. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp418-19; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p12; Cake and Cockhorse 1965, Vol 2, pp199-206; Country Life: Vol 105, 1949, p86)

Listing NGR: SP4656235496

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Legacy System number:: 243802
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 418-9
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 12
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 105, (1949), 86
Trinder, B, 'Cake and Cockhorse' in The Globe Room, , Vol. 2, (1964), 199-206

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.