The Manor House Nursing Home
THE MANOR HOUSE NURSING HOME
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193403
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House Nursing Home
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE NURSING HOME
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193403
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House Nursing Home
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE NURSING HOME
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 NURSING HOME
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Merton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 57851 17913
Details
MERTON SP5717 10/103 The Manor House Nursing Home - II Farmhouse, now nursing home, probably incorporating parts of manor house. Possibly C16/C17, remodelled and extended late C18/early C19. Rendered stone; plain-tile roof with rendered brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys plus attic. 6-window front with moulded plinth, has tripartite sashes to both floors in bays 1, 4 and 6, and has 12-pane sashes elsewhere; panelled entrance with rectangular overlight in bay 5 has a large C20 porch, and there is a secondary entrance between bays 2 and 3. Roof has 3 stacks. Bays 1 and 2, which are both gabled to rear may be the earliest. Rear has further 12-pane sashes. Interior: very large open fireplace with chamfered bressumer. Formerly a large manor house belonging, in the C17, to the Harrington family. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.222; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.701).
Listing NGR: SP5785117913
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243345
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 222
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 701
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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