Pyrton Manor
PYRTON MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368846
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Pyrton Manor
- Statutory Address:
- PYRTON MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368846
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Pyrton Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- PYRTON MANOR
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:
- PYRTON MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pyrton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 68590 95665
Details
PYRTON SU6895 13/127 Pyrton Manor 18/07/63
GV II*
House. c.1600-1610, probably for Edmund Symeon: C18 alterations. Random bond brick with stone quoins and dressings; old tile roof; brick stacks. E-plan with rear left wing. Late Elizabethan style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 7-window range of projecting wings flanking hall range with central 2-storey porch. Stone-moulded 4-centred doorway:moulded wood inner architrave with urn stops to early C17 studded door with original iron fittings. Rendered C18 architraves with raised quoins to 6-pane sashes with heavy glazing bars: first-floor windows in side wings are early C20 copies. Stone cyma-moulded plinth and string courses; moulded kneelers and coping to outer gabled ends. Gabled roof; moulded end stacks with octagonal flues to right and diamond flues to left; rear lateral stacks have octagonal flues; rebuilt end stack to rear left. Left side wall rebuilt c.1786 in grey brick with sashes. Rear elevation and wing have 2- and 3-light stone ovolo-moulded windows: 2-storey stair-turret adjoining inner side of rear wing has similar 3-light window over ovolo-moulded doorway. Mid C19 extension to rear wing incorporates early C17 bay window to left with similar 3-light window and crenellated parapet. Mid C19 dairy in similar style to rear right. Interior: hall to left of centre has mid C19 relief roundel of John Hampden over mid C19 stone fireplace: early C17 moulded stone fireplace above. Right service wing has early C17 moulded stone fireplace, and early C18 dog-leg with winders staircase with turned balusters on closed stringy 2 early C17 doorways with moulded wood architraves to first-floor rooms. Left parlour wing: rear wall of first floor room to front has early C18 panelling with fluted pilasters and Doric entablature framing space for large bed; moulded stone fireplace: 3 similar early C17 doorways lead to elaborate open-well staircase which has turned balusters with arcaded spandrels and fine moulded finials on newels. Post and pad roof trusses are probably late C18: C17 collar truss in rear left wing. Pyrton Manor was probably built for Edmund Symeon who took over the manor in 1605; it was here that John Hampden courted Elizabeth Symeon whom he married in 1619. The "heavy repairs" of 1786 probably entailed the rebuilding of the roof, and not the front which has sashes of early C.18 type with thick glazing bars. Nearby is the moated site of the medieval manor. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VIII, p.140; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.733; National Monuments Record).
Listing NGR: SU6859095665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248973
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1964), 140
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 733
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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