Fawley Manor House

Fawley Manor, South Fawley, OX12 9NL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1210771
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: Fawley Manor House
Statutory Address:: Fawley Manor, South Fawley, OX12 9NL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1210771
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: Fawley Manor House
Statutory Address 1:: Fawley Manor, South Fawley, OX12 9NL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Fawley Manor, South Fawley, OX12 9NL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Fawley
National Grid Reference:: SU 39147 80105

Details

SU 38 SE 1/3

FAWLEY South Fawley Dog Kennel Lane (east side) Fawley Manor House

25.10.51

II*

Manor House. c1600 with C20 alterations and additions. Brick and flint with Bath stone quoins and dressings, some areas of render. Slate roofs. Square plan with wing offset to form L on north, tower in south west corner. Three storeys and attic and basement, four storey tower, two storeys and attic in north wing. Plinth with moulded stone cap, moulded stone strings at first floor and second floor window head, moulded stone caps and finials to gable parapets and crenellations on tower. Two decorative courses of triangles in alternating stone and fling at base of tower parapet. Large central stack on main building with four diagonally set stacks, two ridge stacks with three diagonally set stacks on north wing.

East elevation: All windows three light with ovolo mullions and leaded lights; Main building to left of two windows set under parapetted gables, central first and second floor mullioned and transomed. North wing to right, gabled, two windows with one storey C20 extension across ground floor. Square closed stone porch of two storeys with parapet set close to right side of right hand gable of main building, central double doors approached by four stone steps between two stages of pilaster with bases, plinths and entablature, ground floor fluted Roman Doric, first floor Composite with fluted frieze. Panel over door surrounded by strapwork below mullioned and transomed window; panelled parapet with obelisks flanking panels.

South elevation: two storey brick extension to left with parapet, tower to centre, cross gable to right in knapped flint; one window to each section that to first floor on left being mullioned and transomed.

Interior: Large open well newel stair taking up whole of tower, with turned newels and balusters moulded string and handrail, drop pendants and carved spandrels. Some C17 panelling remaining throughout building. Ground floor central room has Jacobean style fire surround in carved timber of ionic pilasters with leaf carvings, frieze and cornice; the doorcase in the same room has similar pilasters and cornice; one original door and carved doorframe remains on staircase at first floor.

Listing NGR: SU3914780105

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 395356
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 148
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.