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Latitude: 51.6789 / 51°40'44"N
Longitude: -1.3008 / 1°18'2"W
OS Eastings: 448440
OS Northings: 198023
OS Grid: SU484980
Mapcode National: GBR 7YJ.MY4
Mapcode Global: VHCY6.D2P9
Plus Code: 9C3WMMHX+HM
Entry Name: The Manor Preparatory School
Listing Date: 9 February 1966
Last Amended: 24 June 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1182684
English Heritage Legacy ID: 249812
ID on this website: 101182684
Location: Shippon, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, OX13
County: Oxfordshire
District: Vale of White Horse
Civil Parish: St Helen Without
Built-Up Area: Abingdon
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Shippon
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: School building
ST.HELEN WITHOUT FARINGDON ROAD SU49NE (East side) Shippon 8/135 The Manor Preparatory School 09/02/66 (Formerly listed as Manor House, including adjoining outbuildings) GV II Large house, now school. Late C17. Rendered limestone rubble and brick to right; steeply-pitched and hipped old tile roof; brick rear lateral and internal stacks. Central staircase plan. 2 storeys and attic; symmetrical 5-window range. C20 door: late C18 pedimented architrave with engaged Tuscan columns. Late C18 six-pane sashes. Moulded wood cornice: similar sashes in 3 hipped roof dormers. Left side wall has late C18 sash window and Venetian window with keyed stone architrave. To rear right is C18 two-storey bay of coursed limestone rubble and brick with gabled old tile roof, brick end stack and sashes: C18 one-storey service range to rear of coursed limestone rubble with gabled old tile roof: remodelled in C20. C18 service room (wash-house) to rear left of similar materials with hipped roof. Interior: hall has some C18 panelling and open-well staircase: turned newels with gadrooned bases, elaborate fret-cut balusters and barley-sugar balusters. Room to right is panelled with fielded bolection-moulded panels. First floor has panelled room to front left, and bolection-moulded stone fireplace to right. Early C14 2-light window reset in rear wall. Site was owned by Abingdon Abbey: became known as Calcott's Place and house was rebuilt after its destruction in the Civil War. (V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.IV, p.416).
Listing NGR: SU4844098023
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