Lyford Grange
LYFORD GRANGE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1283468
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Lyford Grange
- Statutory Address:
- LYFORD GRANGE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1283468
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Lyford Grange
- Statutory Address 1:
- LYFORD GRANGE
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:
- LYFORD GRANGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lyford
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 39617 94531
Details
LYFORD SU39SE 7/129 Lyford Grange 09/02/66
- II*
House. c.1430-80, for More family: mid C16 alterations and rear wing for Thomas Yates. Roughcast over original timber framing: C15 close studding with middle rail to rear wall and to part of adjoining wall of mid C16 right wing. Left side wall and left wing of limestone rubble. Hipped stone slate roof; mid C16 brick ridge stack finished in early/mid C18 brick, and moulded top to early/mid C18 ridge stack to left. Courtyard plan: range to rear (north-west) demolished c.1817. 2 storeys: 4-window front range. C20 flat hood and C19 moulded architrave to C20 door in central bay. C19 eight-pane sashes in outer bays except early C18 wood cross-window with leaded-lights to lower left: moulded wood cornice. Similar cross-window to rear. Right gable wall has C20 French windows set in C16 cavetto-moulded stone architrave. Moulded end stack to rear gable wall of truncated right wing. Interior: former hall has, in present attic, a 4-bay roof of arched-braced collar trusses flanking central collar truss which has mortices for decorative braces and ends of moulded tie beam: cusp-chamfered windbraces, and chamfered principals and butt purlins. Timber-framed partition divides off 2-bay room to left, with queen post truss. 2-bay parlour end to right: moulded beams, fine mid Cl6 stone moulded fireplace set within mid Cl6 panelled wall on first floor. C16 plank door opens to closet in front of chimney stack which has 3 lights divided by cavetto-moulded mullions over low studded wall facing hall, and similar mullion of blocked window to front: deep embrasured window surround to right suggests original oriel. Roof of right wing remodelled in C18. This moated site, formerly a grange of Abingdon Abbey, was acquired in 1538 by John Yates of Charney Bassett. It was probably remodelled after 1540 by his son Thomas whose son Francis sheltered Edmund Campion of the ill-fated Jesuit Mission in July 1581: Campion was caught and executed at Tyburn the following December. An Agnus Dei found in the roof in 1959, bears witness to his visit since it is dated 1578 and bears the inscription of Pope Gregory XIII. (V.M. Howse, Lyford: A Parish Record, pp.27-38; V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.IV, pp.285, 290; Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Campion, 1980, pp.141-50).
Listing NGR: SU3961794531
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249627
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Waugh, E, Edmund Campion, (1980), 141-50
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 285
Other
Howse, VM, Lyford A Parish Record,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 19-Jun-2026 at 17:02:16.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.