North Aston Manor
NORTH ASTON MANOR, SOMERTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200646
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- North Aston Manor
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH ASTON MANOR, SOMERTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200646
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- North Aston Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH ASTON MANOR, SOMERTON 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:
- NORTH ASTON MANOR, SOMERTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Aston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 47958 29096
Details
SP42NE NORTH ASTON SOMERTON ROAD (South side) 5/279 North Aston Manor 08/12/55 II Manor house. Probably C15, altered and re-modelled C17, and extended early C18, C19 and 1911. Partly-coursed limestone rubble witn some wooden lintels and some ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roofs with stone-and-brick stacks. Main range plus cross-wings, probably deriving from a hall house. 2 storeys. Garden front has a recessed central section with 3 renewed cross-windows at ground floor and large C20 casements above; to right, in the angle with the cross-wing, are 2 stair projections with casements and a sash window. Left cross wing is probably C17 or earlier and has a stone-architraved window above a 3-light casement. C18 right cross-wing is taller and has an ashlar storeyband and 12-pane sashes with plain stone architraves and projecting keyblocks, both wings have hipped roofs and stone-based lateral stacks, the 2 to left with large projections and some rebuilt diagonal shafts. Rear of left wing is wider and has a pair of windows with moulded keyblock surrounds; the return to the central range has a plinth and buttress and may be medieval. Adjoining it, a fine C15 doorway in the main range has a 4-centre-arched surround with continuous wave mouldings below a hood mould. Right side of C18 wing has a 3-window arrangement of stone-architraved sashes, those at ground floor with thick glazing bars; an inserted doorway, now the main entrance, replicates the medieval door. To rear of the right wing is a long range of 1911. Interior: central range has a 4-centre-arched chamfered stone doorway with a hood mould, and has roof trusses with low cambered collars which may be medieval. Left range has very thick walls, and includes a wide segmental-arched stone fireplace with impost blocks and keyblock, above which is some bolection-mould panelling. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p719; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p11)
Listing NGR: SP4795829096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244006
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 11
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 719
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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