Manor House
MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357459
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357459
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1990
- 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:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Westwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 22359 09883
Details
WESTWELL SP20NW Manor House 3/315 (previously listed as 12.9.55 Westwel1 Manor)
GV II*
Manor house. C16 with C17 and C18 extensions and C19 and C20 restorations. Mostly coursed rubble, some dressed rubble; Cotswold stone roofs; ashlar chimneys with cornices. Miniature Versailles plan developing from the central L-plan kernel (after 1544 probably for Robert Taylor) which had become U plan by mid-cl7 with framing wings at right angles for Charles Trinder before 1657; further wings forming the formal shape including the barn (q.v.) and N.W. boundary wall (q.v.) added in C18; the central part of the north front was filled to give a rectangular main block, probably in the C19. 2 storeys and attics. 3 bays to main block 2-bay wings and flanking ranges; return wings less regular fenestration. Mullion windows, some with hollow chamfer; C18 glazing-bar sashes to NE wing in raised flat surrounds. North front has central gable and flanking hipped roofs behind parapets - the difference between these, and also between the plinths below are an indication of the complexity of the house. The north east wing has chamfered quoins, a band over ground floor and paired ground floor windows; cellar window to north gable; the west wall might be a recladding of an earlier one. Rear has central attic gable, transomed ground floor windows and altered central entry. Interior much altered. Fireplaces: in hall a stone segmental pediment overmantel and eared architrave; the N.E. wing, ground floor, has a splendid wide fireplace up to the cornice, the overmantel has herm grotesques, dentil cornice, swagged garland with crude mask on circular tablet, egg and dart sub-cornice Over a panel possibly for a looking glass; in 1st floor S.W. room a C16 fireplace with overmantel with grotesques and strapwork supported on tapering Ionic piers. The interior has been remodelled to include a number of features from Ionic columns to Victorian panelling not necessarily in the correct positions and some imports have been incorporated. The back staircase on the east side of the main block with newel and a few splat balusters retained probably dates from C17. The principal restoration of c.1912 was for Sir Roger Sothern Holland. An interesting complex, beautifully set out and transformed by Sir Roger. NMR AST Fisher The History of Westwell, Oxfordshire (1972)
Listing NGR: SP2236109878
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422577
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fisher, A S T, The History of Westwell Oxfordshire, (1972)
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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