Manor House and Attached Garden Wall to Rear
MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO REAR, OVERY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047809
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House and Attached Garden Wall to Rear
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO REAR, OVERY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047809
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House and Attached Garden Wall to Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO REAR, OVERY 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 HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO REAR, OVERY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dorchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 58257 94015
Details
DORCHESTER OVERY LANE SU59SE (North side) Overy 3/112 Manor House and attached 18/07/63 garden wall to rear (Formerly listed as Overy Manor House)
GV II
Manor house. 1712 on datestone; extended early C19. Red brick with flared headers and some coursed clunch rubble; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. Double-depth lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys plus attics. 5-window front range, with stepped brick plinth, storey band and moulded wood cornice, has, to right of centre, a 6-panel door, with architrave frame below canopy ornamented with key decoration and supported on console brackets; to right is a large canted bay window, and to left are two 3-light casements under segmental arches. At first floor are 3 corresponding 3-light casements plus 2 single-light windows. To right of that over the door is a recessed lozenge painted with "D/WH/1712". The 3 gabled roof dormers have C19 ornamental bargeboards and there are stacks in line with the entrance and to the left gable. Part of the left gable wall and the parallel rear range are rubble with brick dressings and have further casements. All windows have leaded lights. The right end of the rear range forms a higher hip-roofed extension of c.1830. The wall facing right is in header bond, with red quoins and dentil eaves course, and contains a wide 2-storey canted bay window with 16-pane sashes and a dentil cornice. Interior not frae inspected. A clunch rubble wall, partly with a stepped brick coping, runs from the right end of the house around the rear of a walled garden, which is also partly enclosed by the The Old Barn (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SU5825794015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248143
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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