Fritwell Manor
FRITWELL MANOR, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1266393
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Fritwell Manor
- Statutory Address:
- FRITWELL MANOR, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1266393
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Fritwell Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRITWELL MANOR, NORTH STREET
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:
- FRITWELL MANOR, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fritwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 52403 29479
Details
FRITWELL NORTH STREET SP52NW (North side) 3/36 Fritwell Manor 26/11/51 GV II*
Manor house. 1619 for George Yorke, possibly with C16 elements, restored 1893 by Thomas Garner, again in 1910 and enlarged 1921 for Sir John Simon. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roof with stone-and-brick stacks. E plan with rear wing and later additions. 2 storeys plus attic. 5-window front of original range has 3 gabled projections, all with moulded gable parapets and projecting kneelers, but the central porch wing is narrower and taller, with carved finials to the parapets and an ashlar stack rising from the ridge of its roof. The moulded round-arched porch entrance is flanked by detached Corinthian columns, on panelled bases, supporting an entablature which breaks forward in 3 places; above a stone sundial is a 4-light window, and the return walls to the porch have openings containing heavy stone balusters. All bays have ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows to both floors, all with king mullions, and all of 6 lights except the first-floor window in bay 2 which has 4 lights. The 3 gables have 3-light windows with plain-chamfered mullions, and there are 2- and 3-light mullioned windows in some of the short return walls. The roof has gabled roof dormers over bays 2 and 4, and has stacks placed irregularly with diagonal brick shafts. A wing of 1921 set back to left is in similar style. The right end, returning to the original rear wing, has 2 large chimney projections, each with a pair of tall diagonal shafts, and has further ovolo-moulded mullioned windows. Rear of wing is double gabled and has plain stone-mullioned windows, enlarged and restored at ground floor. C20 wing has 2 similar gables to rear, but the infill section, parallel to the main range, has casements and is probably C18. Interior: Some of the painted panelling in the altered hall may be C17, as are the turned balusters of the rebuilt open-well staircase. The large stone fireplaces at ground floor are probably all restorations except for a large fireplace in the rear parlour. At first floor the principal room has a segmental plaster vault with Jacobean decoration, and the restored panelling includes strapwork panels and pilasters supporting an entablature. Formerly the home of the architect Thomas Garner. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p136; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p609)
Listing NGR: SP5240329479
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421620
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 136
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 609
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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