Prescote Manor
PRESCOTE MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228088
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Prescote Manor
- Statutory Address:
- PRESCOTE MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228088
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Prescote Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRESCOTE MANOR
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:
- PRESCOTE MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Prescote
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 47348 46886
Details
PRESCOTE SP4646 14/151 Prescote Manor 08/12/55 - II
Manor house now house. Said to have been built or rebuilt in 1692 for John Danvers. Datestone JD 1691 over front entrance. House remodelled and additional 2 bays to south built in early C19. Ironstone ashlar. Hipped and gabled slate roof. Stone internal stacks with renewed brick shafts. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys. 5-window range. C19/C20 stone porch on right has panelled glazed door. To left two C20 mullioned and transomed windows flank a blocked opening. First floor has 5 renewed wood mullioned and transomed windows. Attic floor has 5 wood casement windows. Stone flat arch lintels throughout. Left gable has 3 tall sash windows with semi-circular arched heads to ground floor and 4 similar windows to first floor. Panelled/glazed door on left has semi-circular arched head. Moulded stone eaves cornice. Interior: C17 panelling said to be from Warkworth Castle, Northants (VCH). Bolection moulded marble fireplace with arms of the Danvers family and the initials and date J.D. 1718. Motto "Nec misere nec laute". C18 straight flight string staircase and C17 dog-leg stair with some renewed treads. In kitchen carving in oak of a sow and 2 pigs, possibly part of a misericord. Arms of the Danvers family on fireplace show a chevron between molets, quartering Neville, a saltire and a ring in centre. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p560; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol X, p208; Gardner's Gazette 1852)
Listing NGR: SP4734846886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402602
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972)
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 560
Gardners Gazetteer and Directory of Oxfordshire in Gardners Gazetteer and Directory of Oxfordshire, (1852)
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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