Finstock Manor House
FINSTOCK MANOR HOUSE, WITNEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1367894
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Finstock Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- FINSTOCK MANOR HOUSE, WITNEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1367894
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Finstock Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FINSTOCK MANOR HOUSE, WITNEY 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:
- FINSTOCK MANOR HOUSE, WITNEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Finstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3613516709
Details
FINSTOCK WITNEY ROAD
SP3616 (North-west side)
17/53 Finstock Manor House
27/08/57 (Formerly listed as Manor Farm
House)
GV II*
Manor house. Dated 1660. Early and mid-C20 alterations and additions. Squared
and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, coursed rubble to sides and rear.
Stone slate roof. L-plan. Two storeys and attic. Chamfered quoins, continuous
hoodmoulds to ground and first floors, and parapeted gables with moulded
copings. Integral dressed stone end stack to left with chamfered offset to 2
square shafts with frieze and moulded cornice, dressed stone ridge stack
off-centre to right (possibly rebuilt) with chamfered offset to rectangular
shaft with moulded coping, and large integral stone end stack to rear wing with
weathering, chamfered offset and moulded cornice. Three large gabled full
dormers with globe finials at feet and apices and oval stone windows with
panelled spandrels, hoodmoulds and square-leaded glazing with central square
casements. Three bays, 3-light hollow-chamfered mullioned stone windows with
square-leaded lights in metal casements (left-hand ground-floor window is
probably a late C19 or C20 restoration). Central doorway with moulded jambs and
depressed-arched head with impost blocks, panelled spandrels and outer square
moulding; C20 small-paned glazed door. Moulded recessed square datestone above
central attic window: "IM/1660", Copper fire insurance plate above door.
Left-hand gable end: first-floor blocked 2-light mullioned stone window to right
with returned hood mould. C20 six-panelled door with pilastered and pedimented
stone doorcase. Right-hand return (garden) front: 3 parapeted gabled dormers
(right-hand pair look restored or c.1900) with moulded copings, globe finials at
apices, and oval windows (left-hand one is oeil-de-boeuf). Three-window front;
mullioned and transomed stone windows with returned hood moulds (some look
restored or c.1900). Lower one-storey part to right with 3-light leaded wooden
casement. Rear: first-floor 2-light mullioned stone window to right. Stair tower
in angle of wing with gable to rear and side; first-floor 2-light mullioned
stone window to rear with returned hoodmould and integral stone stack to side.
First-floor one- and 2-light mullioned stone windows with returned hood moulds
to rear of wing too. Interior: partly inspected: C17 dog-leg oak staircase with
landings, rising to attic, with closed string, turned balusters, chamfered
handrail, and chamfered newel posts with finials, the foot newels rising to full
height. Tudor archway at foot of staircase with evidence of former dog gate.
Staircase returns to top landing.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p605)
Listing NGR: SP3613516709
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252494
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 605
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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