Manor House
MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1285138
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1285138
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE
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 HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elsfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 53972 10175
Details
ELSFIELD SP51SW 1/55 Manor House
GV II
Manor house. Early/mid C18, extended late C19. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; ashlar; stone-slate roofs with stone and brick stacks. Double-depth plan, extended. 2 storeys plus attics and basement. Original 3-window front, with projecting full-height porch wing to right, has sashes in plain stone architraves with keyblocks and a gabled roof dormer to left. Similar sashes in double-gabled return wall to left. 3-window ashlar garden front, with storeyband, has blind windows at basement level. Large late C19 range to right of front has irregular stone-mullioned fenestration and an arched mullioned and transomed window at the front. Interior: Fine early/mid C18 open-well stair with ramped and wreathed handrails, open string with scrolled spandrel brackets and 3 turned balusters per tread; fireplace with eared architrave and heavily-carved cornice; butt-purlin roof. The former home of John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada.
Listing NGR: SP5397210175
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246575
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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