Description

CHARNEY BASSETT SU398E 6/83 Charney Manor 10/11/52 (Formerly listed as The Manor House) GV I

Manor House. Late C13 with C17 wing and later alterations and additions. Random limestone rubble; stone slate roof; stone stacks. First-floor solar and chapel built onto right side of front wall of solar over undercroft. Front wall of chapel has Y-tracery 2-light window and semi-circular arch over round-headed chamfered doorway adjoining slit window. Front left wall of solar block has Y-tracery 2-light window, 2 close-set lancets and corner buttress with gablet. Gabled roof; gable end stack to solar block. Left side wall has a one-light trefoil-headed window to chapel and, to the solar block, 2 close-set lancets and 3 buttresses. C17 central wing: front wall brought forward c.1858 has 4-window range of 2-light mullioned windows; hipped roof to central projecting bay with 4-light mullioned and transomed windows over studded door set in square-headed chamfered architrave flanked by one-light transomed windows; 2 dormers and ridge stack. Wing to right demolished and rebuilt c.1858 in similar style and materials; single-storey block and wing at right angles with one reset C13 slit window attached to front gable of right wing. Rear of C17 wing has similar 3-window range: Tudor-style doorway with 4-centred arch and moulded architrave to 6-panelled door; gabled porch with similar doorway; 2 hipped dormers. Interior: Undercroft has C13 fireplace with shouldered architrave and bread oven; doorways to right have. chamfered round-headed arch to rear and chamfered pointed arch to front; large plain beams and joists. Similar chamfered pointed arch to first-floor solar; late C16 fireplace and late C13 crown post roof with 4-way struts and square base and abacus to octagonal crown post. Solar originally extended further west: C17 rear wall blocks late C13 doorway with chamfered pointed arch in rear left corner. Rear wall has four late C17 two- and 3-light stone mullioned chamfered windows; one 2-light window has additional C20 light; C20 window below in similar style. Chamfered pointed arch over doorway from solar to east chapel. Trefoiled piscina and two-bay roof remodelled in mid C19 but otherwise retaining tie beam. Centre wing has C17 collar-truss roof with butt purlins. Reset late C13 quatrefoil window in west wall of right wall. An important surviving example of a late C13 solar and undercroft with attached chapel. The Manor House was owned by Abingdon Abbey. (T.H. Turner, Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England, 1851, pp.153-155; Buildings of England: Berkshire, pp.112-3; V.C.H.1 Berkshire, Vol.IV, p.466; M. Wood, Excavations at Charney Bassett Manor, Transactions of the Newbury and District Field Club, Vol.12 (1976, pp.42-7).

Listing NGR: SU3809794448

External Links

• Charney Manor at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5086554

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