Description

SPELSBURY DEAN
SP32SW
7/160 Manor House

II

Manor house. Early C18 with later alterations. Coursed limestone rubble with
ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roofs with ashlar stacks. Double-pile plan
with subsidiary range. 2 storeys plus attic and 2 storeys. Symmetrical 5-window
entrance front of taller main range, with chamfered plinth, rusticated quoins
and ashlar flat arches, has 12-pane sashes which are taller at ground floor; the
arched central doorway with rusticated quoins and voussoirs is a C20 alteration.
The plinth, which contains 2 hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned cellar windows,
continues to right around the range as does the moulded wooden cornice of the
steep hipped roof. Wider 5-window return front was probably the original
entrance front, but now has similar sashes throughout, except for a large
late-C18 canted bay window which occupies the 2 left bays at ground floor; the
roof has 3 hipped roof dormers. Set back to right is a plain 2-window subsidiary
range with sashes and French windows, and there is a longer parallel range to
rear. Left return of entrance front is irregular but has further roof dormers.
Interior: original features include a broad dogleg stair with closed string,
square handrail and turned balusters, a similar narrower stair leading to the
attic, and 2 panelled first-floor rooms with plain fireplaces. Said to have been
built c.1702 for Thomas Rowney, MP for Oxford 1695-1722; an inscribed
cornerstone on the subsidiary range appears to include the date 1702.

Listing NGR: SP3422822596

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26543381

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014