MANOR HOUSE

MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1216542
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1216542
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Horley
National Grid Reference:: SP 41682 43857

Details

HORLEY CHURCH LANE SP4143 (East side) 23/97 Manor House 08/12/55 GV II

Manor house, now house. On the site of the Prebendal Manor House, C16/C17 with remodelled east wing of c.1700 probably for Nathanial Austin. Ironstone ashiar and squared coursed ironstone. Hipped and gabled slate and Stonesfield slate roofs. Stone ridge and end stacks with blue brick shafts. L-plan. 2 storeys plus attics, Entrance front. 5-window range. Central entrance has panelled-glazed door and overlight with geometrically patterned glazing. Keyblock head and open segmental pediment. Entrance is flanked by pairs of sashes with stone architrave surrounds with keyblock stone heads. Flush wood-frames. 5 similar first floor windows. 3 pedimented roof dormers. Moulded stone eaves cornice. Flat band to first floor. Stone quoins. Elevation on left facing lane. 2 builds. 7-window range altogether, 3- and 4-light stone mullioned windows have casements with lead cames, crown glass, wrought-iron casement fasteners and springs. Most windows have hood moulds and label stops. Rear. Entrance has original ledged and battened door. Hood mould and diamond shaped label stops, that to right partly obscured by later C17 wing. Chamfered stope piinth. 2- and 3-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. Lead cames, crown glass, wrought-iron casement fasteners and springs. Interior. C17 open-well staircase and part of winder back staircase. Stone fireplaces with 4-centred heads, and a bolection moulded fireplace. C17 and early C18 panelling, some bolection moulded. Sash windows seats, panelled reveals, shutters with draw bars and butterfly hinges. Cellar, John Austin bought the house from Richard Light in 1624. Later John Austin lived here. In 1741 Edward Metcalfe lived here. James Stockton bought the house in 1892. A notable example of a C17 house with a c.1700. Photographs in NMR. (Buildings in England: 0xfordhsire; 1974, p653; VCH; Oxfordshire; Vol X, pp123-4; Wood-Jones, R.B., Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963, p220; Macnamara, F.N., Memorials of the Darwers Family, 1895, p409)

Listing NGR: SP4168243857

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 401752
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Macnamara, FN , Memorials of the Darwers Family, (1895), 409
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 653
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 123-4
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 220

Legal

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