Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225483
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225483
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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:
- 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:
- Lower Heyford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 48448 24861
Details
LOWER HEYFORD CHURCH LANE SP4824 (North side) 10/51 Manor House 26/11/51 (Formerly listed as Manor Farmhouse) GV II
Manor house. 1669 an datestone but part probably earlier; altered C20, Part squared and coursed marlstone and limestone rubble with sane wooden lintels: Stonesfield-slate roofs with brick stacks. L-plan, infilled. 2 storeys plus attic. The longest side now has, towards the right end, four C20 windows with concrete lintels, but retains masonry of at least 3 builds including a section of chamfered plinth. The roof, which has a ridge stack to left of centre, is hipped to left and returns to the wing, which has similar windows plus a C20 bay window, and includes a datestone inscribed "WE/B/1669" built into a jamb. The rear gable wall shows an earlier lower gable including an ovolo-moulded 3-light wood-mullioned window with transoms. The right gable wall of the main range has a similar window but without transoms, and includes the present main entrance plus a blocked entrance. The infill range is lower and is probably C19/C20. Interior: Largest room has heavy stop-chamfered beans and a wide inglenook fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressumer and remains of a bread oven; small early-C18 stone fireplace. The initials on the datestone refer to William and Elizabeth Bruce. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p183)
Listing NGR: SP4844824861
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421878
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 183
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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