Description

FINMERE WATER STRATFORD ROAD
SP63SW (West side)
5/17 Bacon's Farmhouse and attached
stable

- II

Farmhouse. C17 with C18 front range. Squared coursed limestone. Steeply pitched
red-tile roofs. Brick end stacks. C18 range. 2 storeys. 4-window range. Central
entrance has front with hipped red-tile roof. Panelled/glazed door and moulded
wood frame. Ground floor has sashes with keyblock lintels and glazing bars. 4
similar first floor windows. Stone band to first floor. Earlier range to rear
has 2 gabled dormers. Stable attached to right. Squared coursed limestone.
Steeply pitched slate roof. Single storey plus loft. 2 stable entrances with
plank doors and wood lintels. Gabled loft entrance with plank door and wood
lintel. Hipped roof on right. The former Manor House or Court House taking its
name from C18 owners. In the first half of the C18 the Duke of Buckingham, Lord
of the Manor, pulled damn most of the old house and built the present farm
buildings. Purchased by Merton College Oxford in 1853 and 1858. Interior not
inspected.
(VCH: Oxfordshire: 1974, p117)

Listing NGR: SP6462434377

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26487350

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990