Ruins of Manor House

RUINS OF MANOR HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1220230
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:
Ruins of Manor House
Statutory Address:
RUINS OF MANOR HOUSE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1220230
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:
Ruins of Manor House
Statutory Address 1:
RUINS OF MANOR HOUSE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
RUINS OF MANOR HOUSE

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:
Hampton Gay and Poyle
National Grid Reference:
SP 48623 16489

Details

HAMPTON GAY AND POYLE HAMPTON GAY SP4816 6/61 Ruins of Manor House 26/11/51

GV II

Manor house, now ruin. Late C16; burned down 1887. Walls of squared and coursed limestone rubble. E-plan. Gabled outer wings have moulded kneelers, and hood moulds over 2 three-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows to left; moulded architraves to other windows; 3-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows to centre. Central 2-storey porch: crenellated, with similar ovolo-moulded 3-light window above moulded arched doorway with shields it spandrels. Stone ashlar stacks to left and rear right. Similar windows to rear and to left; similar doorway to left side wall. Interior: moulded arched fireplace and chamfered pointed arched fireplace in left wing. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p630; VCH: 0xfordshire; Vol VI, p153)

Listing NGR: SP4862316489

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393959
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Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 153
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 630

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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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