Description

SHIPTON ON CHERWELL AND THRUPP SHIPTON ON CHERWELL SP41NE 1/134 The Manor and attached 26/11/51 outbuildings (Formerly listed as Shipton House)

GV II

Manor house, now house. C16 origins; rebuilt early/mid C17; remodelled and extended to left c.1830 for William Turner. Squared and coursed limestone; stone-coped gabled stone slate roof; moulded stone ashlar ridge and end stacks. Double-depth plan. Two storeys and attic; symmetrical 3-window range to double-gabled range on right. Hood mould over C20 chamfered stone-mullioned window in blocked central doorway. Hood moulds over similar mid C19 three-light windows, and 2-light centre and attic windows. Mid C19 wing of 2-window range to left: hood mould over pointed moulded doorway and similar doorway and bell in inner porch; hood mould over similar 2-light window above; canted bay window to left with similar mullioned windows. Early C20 extension to far left in similar style. All windows have sashes with glazing bars and plate glass. Interior: hall has panelled doors set in reeded architraves; mid C19 panelled doors set in moulded architraves. Early C17 moulded stone fireplaces with sunk spandrels to rooms on right and rear right; similar fireplace with foliate spandrels to room on left. Mid C19 central staircase with turned balusters. Early C17 chamfered and stop-chamfered beams on first and ground floors to right of hall. Attic: to right of hall is late C16 collar truss of heavy scantling, and C17 four-bay butt-purlin roof and plank and ribbed doors. Subsidiary features: C17 range of outbuildings surround courtyard on right; buttressed walls of coursed limestone rubble, and gabled stone slate roof; hood mould over C13 reset pointed chamfered doorway to front, and C18 arched double entry to rear right; square stone piers to open fronts facing yard; roofs are C19, and stone steps to rear right. (Information from VCH)

Listing NGR: SP4798316555

External Links

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