MANSIONHOUSE FARMHOUSE

MANSIONHOUSE FARMHOUSE, ROUNDHILL ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228065
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: MANSIONHOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: MANSIONHOUSE FARMHOUSE, ROUNDHILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228065
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: MANSIONHOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANSIONHOUSE FARMHOUSE, ROUNDHILL ROAD

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:: MANSIONHOUSE FARMHOUSE, ROUNDHILL ROAD

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Mollington
National Grid Reference:: SP 44144 47585

Details

SP4447 13/147 08/12/55

MOLLINGTON ROUNDHILL ROAD (East side) Mansionhouse Farmhouse

GV II

Manor house, now farmhouse. Late C17, altered C18 and C19. Squared coursed lias with C20 plain tile roof. 3-unit plan, originally, probably, with through passage. 2 storeys with attic. 4-window range of 3-, 4- and 5-light stone mullion windows with hood moulds and square label stops. 3 attic gablets with 2- and 3-light stone mullion windows. 2-storey gabled porch, breaks forward to right of centre. Outer doorway has chamfered 4 centred-arch head and inner doorway has chamfered stone lintel and plank door. 2-light stone mullion window to first floor of porch. Second entrance, to right of centre, has plank door and chamfered stone lintel. Chamfered plinth to main house. Ashlar gable parapets and moulded stone kneelers throughout. Ashlar stacks at ridge and end. Left gable has stone mullion windows to each floor, including a cellar window. Rear elevation has gablet, with lateral ashlar stack, to left. Tall, 2-light leaded wooden cross window to left of centre. C18 lean-to extension, with catslide roof, to right is probably C18. Interior: secondry entrance to left may have originally led into screens passage, now gone. Kitchen to far left, has remains of large open fireplace and oven with small C17 fireplace, with 4-centred arch head, reset to left. Blocked stone mullion window, to rear of kitchen, is said to be reset, medieval, probably in place of the screens passage entrance. Centre room has large C17 fireplace with 4 centred arch-head and heavily moulded surround and cornices. Entrance through.porch give access to early C19 staircase with stick balustrade. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p711; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol 10, p197-206; Wood-Jones R.B.: Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region: 1963: p114-115)

Listing NGR: SP4414447585

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 402013
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 711
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 197-206
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 114-115

Legal

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