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Mansionhouse Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Mollington, Oxfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1248 / 52°7'29"N

Longitude: -1.3566 / 1°21'23"W

OS Eastings: 444144

OS Northings: 247585

OS Grid: SP441475

Mapcode National: GBR 7S0.RV6

Mapcode Global: VHCVV.FVPH

Plus Code: 9C4W4JFV+W9

Entry Name: Mansionhouse Farmhouse

Listing Date: 8 December 1955

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1228065

English Heritage Legacy ID: 402013

ID on this website: 101228065

Location: Mollington, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, OX17

County: Oxfordshire

District: Cherwell

Civil Parish: Mollington

Built-Up Area: Mollington

Traditional County: Oxfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Mollington

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


SP4447
13/147
08/12/55

MOLLINGTON
ROUNDHILL ROAD
(East side)
Mansionhouse Farmhouse

GV
II

Manor house, now farmhouse. Late C17, altered C18 and C19. Squared coursed lias
with C20 plain tile roof. 3-unit plan, originally, probably, with through
passage. 2 storeys with attic. 4-window range of 3-, 4- and 5-light stone
mullion windows with hood moulds and square label stops. 3 attic gablets with 2-
and 3-light stone mullion windows. 2-storey gabled porch, breaks forward to
right of centre. Outer doorway has chamfered 4 centred-arch head and inner
doorway has chamfered stone lintel and plank door. 2-light stone mullion window
to first floor of porch. Second entrance, to right of centre, has plank door and
chamfered stone lintel. Chamfered plinth to main house. Ashlar gable parapets
and moulded stone kneelers throughout. Ashlar stacks at ridge and end. Left
gable has stone mullion windows to each floor, including a cellar window. Rear
elevation has gablet, with lateral ashlar stack, to left. Tall, 2-light leaded
wooden cross window to left of centre. C18 lean-to extension, with catslide
roof, to right is probably C18. Interior: secondry entrance to left may have
originally led into screens passage, now gone. Kitchen to far left, has remains
of large open fireplace and oven with small C17 fireplace, with 4-centred arch
head, reset to left. Blocked stone mullion window, to rear of kitchen, is said
to be reset, medieval, probably in place of the screens passage entrance. Centre
room has large C17 fireplace with 4 centred arch-head and heavily moulded
surround and cornices. Entrance through.porch give access to early C19 staircase
with stick balustrade.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p711; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol 10, p197-206;
Wood-Jones R.B.: Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region: 1963:
p114-115)

Listing NGR: SP4414447585

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