Manor House and Abutting Kitchen Block
MANOR HOUSE AND ABUTTING KITCHEN BLOCK, BANBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1300239
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House and Abutting Kitchen Block
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE AND ABUTTING KITCHEN BLOCK, BANBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1300239
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House and Abutting Kitchen Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE AND ABUTTING KITCHEN BLOCK, BANBURY ROAD
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 AND ABUTTING KITCHEN BLOCK, BANBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shutford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 38646 40167
Details
SHUTFORD BANBURY ROAD SP 3839 (South side) 13/119 Manor House and abutting 08/12/55 kitchen block GV II* Manor house now house. Possibly built c.1580 for Sir Richard Fiennes. Porch, kitchen block and staircase projection added in C17. Restored in 1927-8 by Walter Tapper for the owner Mr. M.E. Baner, and west wing added. Restorations and repairs 1986. South, garden front. Ashlar ironstone. Steeply pitched stone slate roof. Stone end, ridge and lateral stack with some diagonally set shafts. Stone coped gables with moulded kneelers. 3-unit plan plus attached kitchen block and C20 wing. 3 storeys. 5-window range. 2 entrances both with corresponding doorways on north. To left a blocked 4-centred arched doorway to former screens passage between hall and service. Entrance off-centre to right to former passage between hall and parlour has a gabled stone porch with a mixture of classical and medieval detail: Tudor arch with attached columns and entablature. Plank door. Ground floor has three 3-light stone mullioned and transomed windows to left of porch and 2-light and 3-light similar windows to right of porch. First floor has four 4-light and a 3-light stone mullioned and transomed windows. Third floor has five 3-light stone mullioned windows. String courses above ground and first floors. Right end has 6-light stone mullioned and transomed windows with king mullions to ground and first floors and a 4-light stone mullioned and transomed window to the third floor. Left end has a small projecting 3-storey garderobe tower and adjoining this an almost square 2-storey kitchen block. Rear. Gabled 4-storey staircase tower has 2- and 3-light stone mullioned windows. To left a 2-storey C17 addition with doorway with chamfered stone head and 3-light stone mullioned windows. To right C20 additions in C17 style, including wing by Walter Tapper. 2 and 3 storeys. Main building has windows of cavetto section, the C17 and C20 additions have windows of flat splay section. Interior. Original plan of parlour, hall and service with 2 screens passages now obscured by C20 alterations. Now 3 rooms on ground floor including parlour, hall (20' x 38') and small room now dining room. Hall and parlour have large lateral fireplaces, that in the hall with fine moulding. Fine square headed doorway leads from the hall to the stair tower. Solid oak baulks tops built round a central newel, the flights 5 feet wide with quarter landings. First and second floors are divided by timber partitions providing three spacious chambers on each floor. 8-bay butt-purlin, collar-rafter roof with jointed wall posts and straight windbraces. C17 panelling, stop-chamfered beams, plank doors, wrought-iron casement fasteners. Kitchen block. Ashlar ironstone. Steeply pitched stone slate roof. Stone end stack. Square plan. 2 storeys plus attic. 2- and 3-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops. Original throughway between kitchen and the hall via the garderobe tower which now contains a C20 concrete spiral staircase. The second or top storey (long room) is said to have been used by William 1st Viscount Saye and Sele to secretly drill soldiers during the Civil War. A notable sub-medieval example providing a direct antecedent for the yeoman house of the C17, in relation to development of plan type, architectural detailing, and roof structure. The earliest example in the Banbury region of a house with a complete second floor. (Beesley, A, History of Banbury, p238; Wood-Jones, R.W., Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, 1963, pp7208; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974,p766; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p233)
Listing NGR: SP3864640167
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244675
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 233
Beesley, A, History of Banbury, (1841), 238
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 766
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 7208
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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