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Latitude: 52.1183 / 52°7'5"N
Longitude: -1.3099 / 1°18'35"W
OS Eastings: 447348
OS Northings: 246886
OS Grid: SP473468
Mapcode National: GBR 7S8.5MK
Mapcode Global: VHCW2.70VY
Plus Code: 9C4W4M9R+82
Entry Name: Prescote Manor
Listing Date: 8 December 1955
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1228088
English Heritage Legacy ID: 402602
ID on this website: 101228088
Location: Cropredy, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, OX17
County: Oxfordshire
District: Cherwell
Civil Parish: Prescote
Built-Up Area: Cropredy
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Cropredy
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Manor house
PRESCOTE
SP4646
14/151 Prescote Manor
08/12/55
- II
Manor house now house. Said to have been built or rebuilt in 1692 for John
Danvers. Datestone JD 1691 over front entrance. House remodelled and additional
2 bays to south built in early C19. Ironstone ashlar. Hipped and gabled slate
roof. Stone internal stacks with renewed brick shafts. Double-depth plan. 3
storeys. 5-window range. C19/C20 stone porch on right has panelled glazed door.
To left two C20 mullioned and transomed windows flank a blocked opening. First
floor has 5 renewed wood mullioned and transomed windows. Attic floor has 5 wood
casement windows. Stone flat arch lintels throughout. Left gable has 3 tall sash
windows with semi-circular arched heads to ground floor and 4 similar windows to
first floor. Panelled/glazed door on left has semi-circular arched head. Moulded
stone eaves cornice. Interior: C17 panelling said to be from Warkworth Castle,
Northants (VCH). Bolection moulded marble fireplace with arms of the Danvers
family and the initials and date J.D. 1718. Motto "Nec misere nec laute". C18
straight flight string staircase and C17 dog-leg stair with some renewed treads.
In kitchen carving in oak of a sow and 2 pigs, possibly part of a misericord.
Arms of the Danvers family on fireplace show a chevron between molets,
quartering Neville, a saltire and a ring in centre.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p560; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol X, p208;
Gardner's Gazette 1852)
Listing NGR: SP4734846886
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