Chippinghurst Manor House and Attached Garden Walls
CHIPPINGHURST MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047707
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Chippinghurst Manor House and Attached Garden Walls
- Statutory Address:
- CHIPPINGHURST MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047707
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Chippinghurst Manor House and Attached Garden Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHIPPINGHURST MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS
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:
- CHIPPINGHURST MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cuddesdon and Denton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 60126 01203
Details
SP 60 SW CUDDESDON AND DENTON CHIPPINGHURST 3/1 Chippinghurst Manor House 18/07/63 and attached garden walls - II
Manor house. Late C16, reconstructed and extended 1937 by Fielding Dodd for James McDougall. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins; plain-tile roof with brick stacks. U-plan. 2 storeys. Main entrance in south wing is flanked by projecting east and west wings forming north-facing court. C16 pyramid-roofed 3-storey turret in south-east angle has a 2-course stone weathering at storey height and, in the top stage, a leaded oak-frame window with 3 internal diamond mullions. Except for the adjacent chimney-stack with diagonal shafts and a blocked single-light window, both in the east wing, the remainder of the work facing the court is C20. The east front, the details of which are copied throughout, has a moulded plinth stone eaves-cove and ashlar storey-band, and forms a range of four 4-light windows with, at first floor, a single light window between the pair to left of centre. Ground-floor windows have labels and the sills of the 2 windows to left of centre have been lowered. The 4-centre arched doorway to right is concealed by a stone and tiled porch with a similar doorway under a label. The porch gable has a parapet with console kneelers and an obscured datestone. The gable walls of the range have projecting stacks: to left with old brick diagonal shafts and an ornamental lead sun dial; to right beside a C16 two-light stone-mullioned window. Interior: Drawing room in east wing has restored Tudor-arched stone fireplaces with moulded surrounds. Generally extensively re-modelled. Extending from the east front are stone walls: to right incorporating a C16/17 four centre arched doorway; to left with doorway to walled garden on the south side of the house. Walled garden has C18 brick walls in Flemish bond with flat stone copings. Brick piers to south have moulded stone cornices and C20 wrought iron gates. JamesMcDougall was the inventor of self-raising flour. (V.C.H. : Oxfordshire, Vol V).
Listing NGR: SP6012601203
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246389
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 12-Jun-2026 at 18:21:11.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.