Description

NOKE SP51SW 6/114 Manor Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse incorporating part of a mansion. C16, late C17 and early C18. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; plain-tile roof with brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys plus attic. 3-window front of C18 main range has leaded casements of 3, 3 and 2 lights with, at first floor, stone flat arches and, at ground floor, wooden lintels. The windows in the right bay are at lower level and the bay also contains a doorway with a plank door. The right end wall is tile hung. The roof is half-hipped to right and has a stack to left of centre. The short hipped-roofed late C17 range projecting to left of the main range has pairs of heavy cross windows in its end wall (original at first floor) and slightly later leaded mullioned-and-transomed casements facing right; the main entrance lies near the angle. The left wall has a fine projecting stone chimney with a brick-shafted ashlar stack, beyond which is a small hipped-roofed projection with cross windows. A further projecting chimney with 2 diagonal brick shafts is probably C16, and rises against a crow-stepped gable with rendered brick parapet containing a small 2-light wood-mLtllioned window. Rear of house has further casements. Interior: C16 section has a Tudor-arched stone fireplace with recessed spandrels and a brick relieving arch, and the room has heavy joists; first-floor room has re-used C17 panelling. Late C17 wing has a moulded rectangular stone fireplace, and the roof has 2 rows of butt purlins and cambered collars. The earlier sections are part of a mansion built by the Bradshawe family; the C18 wing may represent a rebuilding undertaken when the house was aquired by the Duke of Marlborough in the early C18. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.268; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.718).

Listing NGR: SP5454913261

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