Hardwick Manor House
HARDWICK MANOR HOUSE, HETHE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046449
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hardwick Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- HARDWICK MANOR HOUSE, HETHE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1046449
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hardwick Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARDWICK MANOR HOUSE, HETHE ROAD
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:
- HARDWICK MANOR HOUSE, HETHE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hardwick with Tusmore
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 57657 29602
Details
HARDWICK WITH TUSMORE HETHE ROAD SP5729 (South side) Hardwick 16/32 Hardwick Manor House 26/11/51
GV II*
Manor farmhouse. late C16 with later extension and addition. West gable restored in 1946. Late C20 alterations and repairs. Coursed limestone rubble. Half-hipped tiled roof. Substantial stone ridge stack has 3 diagonally set brick shafts. Rear has a stone brick lateral stack. Long rectangular plan. Probably originally 2-unit extended to 4-unit plan. 2 storeys plus attic and cellar. 6-window range extended to 8-window range. Front elevation. Entrance off-centre to right has a gabled porch, plank door and moulded wood frame. To right three 2-light stone mullioned windows. To left two 2-light stone mullioned windows. To left of straight joint two C20 2-light stone mullioned windows to left of straight joint and five 2-light stone mullioned windows and a single light window to main part. Hood moulds and label stops throughout. To right of entrance a 3-light stone mullioned cellar window. Rear elevation. Gabled 2-storey staircase projection off-centre to left has 2-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. Doorway leads to cellar below staircase. Single-storey dairy outshot on right has a raking roof and brick stack, Entrance into outshot on right. To left of door a 2-light and 3-light casement. Between the outshot and staircase projection a C20 window with wood lintel on the ground floor and a 2-light window with wood lintel above. To left of staircase projection a 2-light stone mullioned window on first floor has a hood mould and label stops. Interior. Plan from west to east, includes Parlour, space occuped by original staircase and with stone steps leading to cellar, Hall, Kitchen and Dairy to rear. Staircase projection now leads from upper end of hall in passageway leading to Parlour. Parlour has a late C16 stone fireplace with 4-centred arched head. Hall has wide stone fireplace with wood bressumer, a fragment of C17 oak screen and chamfered beam. Cellar has C16 moulded and stop-chamfered beam. Original late C16 staircase has a heavy moulded handrail without balusters and massive fleur-de-lys shaped newel posts. Original passageway ran from the west to east on north of house. Present passageway runs from west to east on south with partition walls dividing rooms. Small square opening to priest's hole in side of stack above head height on first floor. Probably formed about the same time as the ridge stack. Attic floor has former R.C. chapel with stoup at entrance. Barrel-vault plaster ceiling. Altar steps and winder stair. Priest's hole beyond chapel. Hardwick Manor house was built c.1580 to 1643 when Sir Richard Fermor was Lord of the Manor. The Fermors were a prominent R.C. family and services were held at Hardwick Manor House until the C19 when a new R.C. Chapel was built at Hethe. The manor house was leased in the C18 by the Fermors to the Day family until 1793 and to the Collingridge family until 1812. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p633; VCH; 0xfordshire: Vol VI, p169)
Listing NGR: SP5765729602
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243625
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 169
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 633
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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