The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047998
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047998
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE
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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Toot Baldon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 56679 00796
Details
TOOT BALDON SP5600 8/176 The Manor House 18/07/63 (Formerly listed as Manor House and gatepiers)
GV II
Manor house. Early C17, extended C18. Coursed squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; old plain-tile roof with rebuilt brick stacks. 3-unit cross-passage plan. 2 storeys plus attic. Triple-gabled front has three 3-light stone-mullioned windows at each floor with intermediate single-light windows at ground and first floors, all with ovolo mouldings and labels. Most windows are probably C19. 4-centre arched entrance, to left of centre, has recessed spandrels and a label. Parapets have steep copings with a ridge roll and some simple finials. Roof has a large clustered stack to right of centre and further stacks on the end gables. Lower C18 bay to left of front has a 2-light casement. Rear wing has small 2-light stone-mullioned stair windows with a plain chamfer and no label. Rear has been much altered but retains several original ovolo-moulded windows. Right end wall and rear of right bay have leaded cross windows under stone flat arches. Interior: stop-chamfered beams. Large open fireplace with bread oven. C17 oak-panelled parlour with a shell-headed alcove, a Tudor-arched stone fireplace and a panelled overmantel with caryatids. Moulded-stone first-floor fireplaces, one a bolection surround. Butt-purlin roof. Early plank-shutters in stair tower. Remains of former cross-passage. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire: Vol.V, p.48. Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.819).
Listing NGR: SP5667900796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248414
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 48
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 819
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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