YELFORD MANOR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1368241
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1955
List Entry Name:: YELFORD MANOR
Statutory Address:: YELFORD MANOR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1368241
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: YELFORD MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: YELFORD MANOR

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:: YELFORD MANOR

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hardwick-with-Yelford
National Grid Reference:: SP3596604743

Details

HARDWICK WITH YELFORD YELFORD SP30SE 10/205 Yelford Manor 12/09/55 (Formerly listed as Manor House

GV II*

Manor house, now house. Late C15 for the Hastings family; early C17 and C18 alterations. Timber-framed, of close studding; clad in C18 limestone rubble on right side and to rear right. Gabled stone slate roof; stone stack finished in C20 brick to left, and stone right end stack; large stone rear lateral stack with 3 ashlar octagonal flues. 2-storey hall range and cross wings. 2 storeys; 5-window range. Hall range: C20 door to left set in restored C20 frame; bay window above has early C17 ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned lights, and gablet with bargeboard; 4-light chamfered wood-mullioned window above early C18 four-light transomed window to right; 2-storey polygonal oriel in right bay of hall range has hollow-chamfered wood-mullioned windows (originally transomed on ground floor) and herringbone timbers in gablet. Jettied gable ends of side wings: C18 three-light leaded casement above C18 four-light mullioned and transomed window with shutters to right; restored 3-light wood-mullioned window above 5-light wood-mullioned window with leaded and lattice cames to left. 3-light wood-mullioned window to left side wall and 2 similar 2-light windows above altered 3-light window to rear of left wing. 2-bay stair turret adjoins rear left wing. C18 L-shaped service range to rear, remodelled in mid C19: of limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and gabled stone slate roof. Interior: studded partitions divide all rooms. Hall has C20 arch to open fireplace with moulded jambs; chamfered beam; screens passage has studded partition with 2 early C17 moulded doorways and studded door to left, and late C15 chamfered panelled screen to right, and chamfered arched doorway to rear. C20 winder stairs rise to first-floor gallery with arched hollow-chamfered doorways, one with Hastings monogram in spandrel; first floor of hall has cornice of late C15 fireplace to rear; 3-bay hall roof has 3 collar trusses, and an arch-braced collar-truss with arched windbraces and butt purlins, repaired with C17 brace. Service wing to left has 2 rooms with chamfered beam on ground floor, chamfered arched fireplace on first floor, and 4-bay collar-truss roof with arched windbraces and butt purlins. Parlour wing to right has similar 3-bay roof; early C17 panelled ground-floor room has Ionic pilaster, and an elaborately-carved overmantle with 3 blind arches divided by caryatids and a frieze of dragons with the arms of John Hastings and Mary Pudsey (married 1619). Stair-turret has queen-post truss. Many timbers have late C16 banded red and gold decoration - as at Church Farmhouse, South Leigh (q.v.). The first-floor hall fireplace, 2-storey oriel and indications of a blocked C15 first-floor window suggest that Yelford Manor originally had a 2-storey hall: the hall and side wings are not linked structurally and were probably built in stages. (National Monuments Record; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.869; Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, PRN 11977 for drawings; Bodleian Library, Oxford, S.A. Eccles, Top, E,10, J.28 for 1895 photograph).

Listing NGR: SP3596604743

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Legacy System number:: 252289
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 869

Legal

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