The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, MANOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052504
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, MANOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052504
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, MANOR ROAD
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, MANOR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandford St. Martin
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 41939 26512
Details
SANDFORD ST.MARTIN MANOR ROAD SP4126 (South side) 13/144 The Manor House - II Manor house. c.1715, for Joseph Taylor, possibly with earlier elements, extended C19 and 1924. Limestone ashlar and coursed squared rubble; Stonesfield-slate roofs with ashlar stacks. Complex plan. 2 and 3 storeys. Central part of the garden front is the original ashlar 5-window entrance front in Baroque style, with 12-pane sashes at ground and first floors, storey bands and a parapet with cornice; the middle 3 bays break forward under a triangular pediment and, at second floor, have segmental-arched casements flanking a taller round-headed window which rises into the pediment under a large keyblock. Outer bays have contemporary ornamental lead rainwater heads. Set back on either side is an added 2-storey bay with sashes plus later extensions with gabled half dormers. Roofs have gable parapets. Present entrance front is C19 and C20 in multi-gabled style with stone-mullioned windows. Interior not inspected but photograph in National Monuments Record shows a stone Tudor-arched fireplace with a plaster overmantel of coat of arms within a border. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.XI, p.172; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.751).
Listing NGR: SP4193926512
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251955
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 172
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 751
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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