Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047452
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047452
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, HIGH 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:
- MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wheatley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 59389 05781
Details
WHEATLEY HIGH STREET SP5905 (South side) 7/223 Manor House 18/07/63
GV II*
Manor house. Probably C16; wing dated 1601. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; old plain-tile roof and brick stacks. H-plan. One storey plus attics and 2 storeys plus attics. Front of main range has central studded door with double-ovolo moulded frame. To left, two 4-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows, and to right, a 4-light wood mullioned window and a 3-light casement, all with C18 segmental arches above. 3 hipped half dormers with C20 frames. Right bay is a later additions. Right cross wing has stone mullioned windows of 5,4 and 3 lights in the gable wall, all with ovolo moulding, labels and old leaded lights. Gable wall of left cross wing has a 2-storey canted bay, with stone mullioned and transomed windows and a crenellated parapet, and in the rendered gable, which retains a moulded bargeboard, contains a 3-light casement. Flanking plaster panels with ornamental borders are inscribed "ANNO/1601" and "T:A:A:A". Left return wall is altered but has 3 re-set stone mullioned and transomed windows at first floor. Rear gable retains a 3-light stone mullioned and transomed window at frist floor. Further studded door with moulded frame re-set at rear, and a cased lead pump is attached to the rear wall. Interior: Elaborate intersecting double-ovolo moulded beams in 1601 range, and in ground floor of main range (probably inserted) to left of former screens passage. Timber-framed gable and parts of roof structure of former hall survive together with remains of solar. Several 4-centre arched stone fireplaces: some reset. Right wing has heavy chamfered spine beams with some chamfered and stopped joists, and a large open fireplace with brick lining. It may have been a detached kitchen, later linked to hall range by added bay. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.109 Buildings of England: Oxfordshire; p.838).
Listing NGR: SP5938905781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246989
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 109
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 838
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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