Kennington Manor House and Attached Wall and Gatepiers
KENNINGTON MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATEPIERS, 211, KENNINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182054
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Kennington Manor House and Attached Wall and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address:
- KENNINGTON MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATEPIERS, 211, KENNINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182054
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kennington Manor House and Attached Wall and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENNINGTON MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATEPIERS, 211, KENNINGTON 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:
- KENNINGTON MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND GATEPIERS, 211, KENNINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kennington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 52337 02356
Details
KENNINGTON KENNINGTON ROAD SP5OSW (East side) 7/60 No.211 (Kennington Manor 06/08/52 House) and attached wall and gatepiers (Formerly listed as No.211 (Kennington Manor House) GV II* Farmhouse, now house. Built 1629 for Oliver Smith and Henry Bosworth: remodelled and left end truncated in late C18. Coursed and dressed limestone up to moulded string course; roughcast over timber frame above; left gable wall of late C18 limestone rubble. Gabled C20 tile roof; rendered ridge stick, and late C18 brick end stack to left. 3-unit lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Rendered surround to late C19 six-panelled (4 glazed) door right of centre, flanked by early C19 canted bay windows with 8-pane sashes: rendered flat arch over late C18 three-light round-headed leaded casement to left. Similar 4-light first-floor casements. Rear: ashlar dressings to C17 canted wood-mullioned bay window with C19 casements, which is flanked by early C17 round-arched lights (one with 2-light wood-mullioned ovolo-moulded window): ground floor has early C17 three-light stone-mullioned ovolo-moulded round-arched window flanked by similar one-light windows which include one mutilated by C19 door. Rendered stair-turret with 3-light leaded casement projects from roof. Rear right wing of similar materials: similar C17 one-, 2- and 3-light windows, and 4-light wood-mullioned window: rear gable has early C19 two-storey canted bay window in place of C17 stone bay window. c19 extension to rear left. Interior: stack divides over entry. Moulded stone fireplaces, all differently carved with sunk spandrels. Large stone double-chamfered fireplace and corbel (possibly reset) inscribed 1629/OSHB in room to left. Timber-framed stair-well to rear and timber-framed first-floor partitions. Rear wing rooms have plaster ceilings: moulded cornices to quartered beams, the soffits of which are pargetted with trailing pomegranites on ground floor and strapwork on first floor. Roof mainly rebuilt in late C18, but retains collar truss at front and queen-post truss with cambered collar to rear. Subsidiary features: short 2m. long wall to right connected to early C17 gatepiers, each of limestone ashlar with moulded entablature and ball finial: entry infilled in late C18 by smaller keyed archway. Oliver Smith and Henry Bosworth had this house built to accommodate Smith's son and Bosworth's daughter who were married in 1629.
Listing NGR: SP5233702356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249735
- 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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