Muswell Hill Manor
Muswell Hill Manor, Piddington, Aylesbury, HP18 9XD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233001
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Muswell Hill Manor
- Statutory Address:
- Muswell Hill Manor, Piddington, Aylesbury, HP18 9XD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233001
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Muswell Hill Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- Muswell Hill Manor, Piddington, Aylesbury, HP18 9XD
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:
- Muswell Hill Manor, Piddington, Aylesbury, HP18 9XD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Piddington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 64304 15531
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/01/2020
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PIDDINGTON
Muswell Hill Manor
(Formerly listed as Muswell Hill Farmhouse, previously listed as Muswell Hill Farmhouse, Brill)
07/12/66
II
Farmhouse. C16 and early/mid C17; much restored C20. Timber framing on rubble and brick base with renewed plaster infill; narrow brick in irregular bond; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks.
Three-bay hall house, extended to T-plan, with second added wing. Two storeys plus attic, and three storeys plus attic. Timber-framed hall range, built into hill, and possibly early C16, retains some original heavy framing plus a four-light wood-mullioned gable window; other mullioned windows of up to nine lights have been restored in original positions. Late C16 wing has two storeys of framing, now pargetted to an original pattern, on a brick semi-basement. Two window brick wing projecting from it has a rubble and brick base; three-light casements have segmental arches at first floor. Roofs are half hipped, except for the brick wing which has a tall gable stack; hall range has a tall late C16/early C17 clustered stack rising out of the roof slope.
Interior: restored single-bay open hall with a clasped-purlin roof and two rows of curved windbraces; massive inserted stack with wide brick arches mostly renewed; heavy joists in floored sections. Attic joists in hall range and wing span into stop-chamfered lateral beams. Brick wing has a renewed Tudor-arched stone fireplace with original moulded-brick back, and has a complete moulded-brick fireplace with a depressed arch.
Listing NGR: SP6430415531
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408424
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 250
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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