Manor Farmhouse
MANOR FARMHOUSE, BICESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232878
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, BICESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232878
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE, BICESTER ROAD
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 FARMHOUSE, BICESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Launton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 60368 22880
Details
SP6022 LAUNTON BICESTER ROAD (South side)
13/92 Manor Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse; including former Court Room. Early C17, probably incorporating earlier elements. Coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks, 4-unit plan with cross wing. 2 storeys and 2 storeys plus attics. 4-window front of lower main range has a central doorway between large 4-light C20 casements, and has 2 smaller windows to extreme right plus, to extreme left, an altered doorway below a C16/C17 label mould with lozenge-shaped stops; first floor has 2 old 3-light casements, a C19 half dormer and a gabled full dormer. Roof is half-hipped to right and has 2 ridge stacks. Tall cross wing to left is the former Court Room and has C19 windows, gabled stacks and a roof dormer; attached to its right front corner is a 2-storey pyramid-roofed stair tower with small windows to each floor. Rear of main range has a massive stone chimney projection tapering to a tall brick stack, plus some old casements; a stone outshut extends more that half the length of the range. Interior; some heavy beams, one crudely moulded, which may be medieval; large open fireplace; winder stair. The site of the Manor House. (V.C.H.: 0xfordshire; Vol.VI, p.233).
Listing NGR: SP6036822880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408261
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 233
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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