BARN AT MANOR HOUSE

BARN AT MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1283551
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: BARN AT MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BARN AT MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1283551
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: BARN AT MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BARN AT MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BARN AT MANOR HOUSE, MAIN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Tadmarton
National Grid Reference:: SP 39263 37902

Details

TADMARTON MAIN STREET SP33NE (North side) 2/98 Barn at Manor House 08/12/55 GV II* Barn. Probably C15. Regular coursed ironstone rubble. Thatched roof. Gabled stone porch on north to 4th bay. Slit windows. Angle buttresses. Entrance to porch has arch with keystone and stone surrounds. 6 bays. Quoins to 5th bay indicate 6th bay possibly added. Interior: Roof has arched braced tie beams, trenched purlins, windbraces, ridge with yoke and common rafters, some renewed. Raised cruck construction. Probably built by Abingdon Abbey. Noted as being similar to the New College C14 barn at Swalcliffe, but having modest character and workmanship in comparison. (V.C.H. : Oxfordshire, Vol X, p.151; Wood-Jones, R.B., Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963, p.22; Buildings of England : Oxfordshire, p.804).

Listing NGR: SP3926337902

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 244109
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 804
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 151
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 22

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.