MANOR HOUSE

MANOR HOUSE, BROAD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367642
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1955
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE, BROAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367642
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1955
List Entry Name:: MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR HOUSE, BROAD 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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Location

Statutory Address:: MANOR HOUSE, BROAD STREET

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Bampton
National Grid Reference:: SP 31290 03495

Details

SP3003-3103 BAMPTON BROAD STREET (West side) 13/38 Manor House 12/09/55

GV II Large house. Mid C18, possibly contemporary with stables which have date stone inscribed "Gascoigne Frederick 1755". Said to incorporate older building for which little structural evidence survives. South side has extension with early C19 Gothick porch, and Gothick wing rebuilt 1904-5. Refurbished early 1980's. Stucco, renewed 1980's, with stone dressings, hipped stone slate roofs and stuccoed chimneys. East front has tall central block of 3 storeys and 4 bays, with band courses and moulded eaves cornice. This is flanked by 2-storey, 2-bay wings, slightly set back, each with single band course below parapet. 3-pane sashes, those to ground floor renewed 1980's, the side wings with smaller sashes. All sashes have stucco voussoir heads with keyblocks, all reworked 1980's, those over central first floor windows slightly arched. 2 centre bays are slightly advanced, with blind lunette containing 3-light wooden casement at second floor level, and smaller lunette with bust in pediment above. Pediment has stone ball finial. South front has early C19 bay to centre with coped gable and ball finial. This bay has blind lunette in gable, 3-light stone mullion window with Tudor hoodmould at second floor level, and ashlar oriel window in Tudor style below. Ground floor has fine early C19 half-glazed door with radiating semi-circular fanlight, and ashlar porch in Gothick style with battlements, patterned frieze on quatrefoil shafts, and 4-centred arch to front. To left of this is a rubble stone wing, rebuilt early C20, with parapet and 2 bays of tripartite Gothick sashes. Interior contains fine mid C18 panelled room with dentil cornice. Fireplace has eared architrave surround and moulded panel above, and is flanked by tall fluted Doric pilasters which support a triglyph frieze. (Illustrated in Country Life, July 26th 1946)

Listing NGR: SP3129003495

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Legacy System:: LBS

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'Country Life' in 26 July, (1946)

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