Ewelme Manor
Ewelme Manor, High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194482
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Ewelme Manor
- Statutory Address:
- Ewelme Manor, High Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194482
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Ewelme Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ewelme Manor, High Street
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:
- Ewelme Manor, High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ewelme
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 64383 91449
Details
SU6491
8/104
EWELME
HIGH STREET (South side)
Ewelme Manor
28/07/63
II*
Part of Ewelme Palace, now house. c.1450 with late C18 fenestration and wing to rear left. Red brick; old plain-tile roof; brick lateral stacks to rear.
Two storeys, three-window range. Six-panel door with fan-light to C19 red brick porch to centre. Sixteen-pane sashes to all openings. Right return: two storeys and attic, angled buttresses to corners. twenty-pane sashes to ground and first floor, four-pane sash to attic gable.
Interior: Arch-braced collar-truss roof with sharply curved wind-braces. Last surviving fragment of Chaucer's ancestral home. Enlarged after the marriage of Alice Chaucer to William de la Pole (Earl of Suffolk) in 1430. Described by Leland in 1542, "The base court of it is fair and is builded with brick and timber. The inner part of the house is set within a fair moat and is builded richly of brick and stone. The hall of it is fair and hath great bars of iron over thwart it instead of gross-beads." What is now the Manor was part of a self-contained range for the accommodation of guests or retainers. Shown in an engraving by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck of 1729. Truncated and remodelled in 1787.
Listing NGR: SU6438391449
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247813
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 600
Malcolm Airs, , Ewelme in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 135, (1975), 275-280
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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