Manor Farm House
MANOR FARM HOUSE, MANOR FARM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1369747
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARM HOUSE, MANOR FARM LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1369747
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR FARM HOUSE, MANOR FARM LANE
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:
- MANOR FARM HOUSE, MANOR FARM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chesterton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 56316 21367
Details
SP52SE CHESTERTON MANOR FARM LANE (South side) Great Chesterton
6/40 Manor Farm House
GV II*
Manor house. Early C12 and C16/C17, remodelled late C18. Limestone rubble with wooden lintels; Stonesfield-slate and Welsh-slate roof with brick stacks. L-plan with attached range. 2 storeys plus attics and one storey plus attic. Regular 5-window front of main range has a central dooorway and renewed sashes (12-pane at ground floor and 9-pane above) and has a stone band above first-floor windows; stone-slate roof has 3 gabled roof dormers with brick gable stacks. Lean-to addition against right gable wall. Short rear wing, returning on left, is probably C16/C17 and originally extended beyond the present front; a single-storey kitchen bay to rear of it is C18. Large range linked to rear of right end of main range, and parallel with it, is C12 with a C17 roof; it has 2 original small window openings in the right end (both with later lintels) and an original round-headed entrance, converted to a window and now contained within the linking range. The remains of a window in the left gable is probably medieval. C20 gable and steps to rear. To rear of this range is a timber-framed privy, with brick infill, probably early C18. Interior: rear wing and left end of house have intersecting chamfered beams and an early partition with lattice panels; front windows have panelled shutters; pine panelling in lean-to room. Linking range has some medieval stonework and an early beam which may have formed part of a porch to the C12 range. Lower storey of C12 range is the barrel-vaulted undercroft to a first-floor hall or chamber; the round-arched splays to the end windows and the groined vault over the original doorway survive, but the undercroft is now subdivided by a later, though possibly medieval, crosswall, and there are inserted doorways to right and in the left gable wall plus an inserted window to rear. Upper floor is now contained within the 6-bay butt-purlin roof which has through tenons and had 2 collars (the lower collars are now removed). The building had become a detached outbuilding until late C20 when it was linked to the house, converted, and recognized as one of the earliest known examples of the first-floor hall or chamber, and evidence for a contemporary encircling moat was found. (Dr. J. Blair, Medieval Archaeology, Vol.28, (1984), pp.235-6; V.C.H.: 0xfordshire, Vol.VI, p.93).
Listing NGR: SP5631621367
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243425
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 93
Medieval Archaeology in Medieval Archaeology, (1984)
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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