Asthall Manor House
ASTHALL MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367680
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Asthall Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- ASTHALL MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367680
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Asthall Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASTHALL 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:
- ASTHALL 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:
- Asthall
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 28673 11382
Details
ASTHALL SP2811 17/2 Ashtall Manor house 12/09/55 (Formerly listed as Asthall Manor with building in garden) GV II
Manor house. Probably early C17, with alterations c.1916, by C. Bateman. Stone coursed rubble; complex stone slate roof; various stone stacks. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window main range, towards churchyard, with projecting end bays. Stone porch to centre, dated 1916 to gable of roof, having plank door. 4-light stone mullion and transom windows with hoodmoulds to left of centre and to right of centre. 2-storey angled bays to end bays with stone mullion and transom windows and battlemented parapets. 4-light stone mullion and transom windows with hoodmoulds to first floor left of centre, and to right of centre. 3-light stone mullion window to centre with hoodmould. Cross-gables to end bays and to left and right of centre, having 3-light stone mullion windows with floating cornices. Hipped full dormer to centre. Wing to left: early C20, possibly incorporating earlier structure. Stone coursed rubble; complex stone slate roofs. Single-storey, 4-bay range ('building in garden') linking to 3-bay entrance lodge range of 2 storey and attic. Irregular fenestration of windows. and doors. Interior not inspected but likely to be of interest. History: built for Sir William Jones circa 1620. Bought by Lord Redesdale 1919. Home of the Mitford family 1919-1926. Nancy Mitford's childhood at Asthall was her inspiration for "Love in a Cold Climate" and "Pursuit of Love". (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1979, pp425-6; Country Life: Vol XCVII, p1124; "The Mitford Family Album" Sophia Murphy, 1985)
Listing NGR: SP2867311382
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253558
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 425-6
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 97, (1985), 1124
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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