Manor Farmhouse and Attached Walls and Gateway
MANOR FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEWAY, MANOR FARM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046785
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse and Attached Walls and Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEWAY, MANOR FARM LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046785
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse and Attached Walls and Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEWAY, MANOR FARM LANE
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 FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEWAY, MANOR FARM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wroxton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 38992 41632
Details
WROXTON MANOR FARM LANE SP3840, SP3941 (South side) Balscote 8/234, 9/234 Manor Farmhouse and attached 08/12/55 walls and gateway (Formerly listed as Manor House II Manor house now farmhouse. C17 with C18 alterations and additions. Walls and gateway. C17 and C18. Walls approximately 2 metres high. Regular coursed ironstone rubble with stone coping. Piers have cornices and ball finials. 2 clasping buttresses. Farmhouse: Elevation to road. Coursed ironstone rubble and squared coursed ironstone rubble. Steeply pitched stone slate roofs laid to diminishing courses. Blue brick ridge stack, rendered ridge stack with renewed brick shaft and stone ridge stack. Stone coped gables. L-plan. 2 storeys. Scattered fenestration of 3-window range. C17 part of 2 builds on right is situated gable on to road. C18 wing attached to left. C17 part has a C20 French door, and a 3-light casement with a renewed wood lintel. In the gable is a re-set C13 window of 2-lights under a semi-circular wood. The tympanum is incized with intersecting circles. Badly weathered. C18 part on left has a C18 sash with keyblock stone head and a 2-light stone mullioned window on the ground floor. Two sashes on first floor. Pediment with round window. Right side (west) of C17 part. Entrance has stable door with wood lintel and is flanked by 4-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. Two 3-light similar windows to first floor. Interior. C17 part has inglenook fireplace with chamfered beam, stop-chamfered beam, partly renewed wood winder staircase and stone flag floors. C18 part has C18 panelled cupboards, boxed beams, sashes with panelled reveals and shutters and a moulded wood cornice. Said to have been the site of the home of the Belet family of which Michael founded Wroxton Priory in 1217. Noted as the chief house in the village in the C17 when it was occupied by the Sacheverell family. Assessed on 7 hearths in 1665 and figures in maps of 1677 and 1684. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p428; VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol IX, p175; VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol II, p101; Oxford Archaeology Soc. Rep. No.84, (1938), p55)
Listing NGR: SP3899241632
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244791
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1907), 101
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 175
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 428
Oxford Archaeology Society Report in Report Number 84, (1938), 55
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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