Description

SP43SE DEDDINGTON B4031 (South side) Clifton 3/135 Manor Farmhouse and attached 08/12/55 outbuilding

GV II Farmhouse, now house. Probably mid C17 and 1685 (on datestone) extended C19. Coursed squared marlstone with some wooden lintels and some ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate, concrete plain-tile and corrugated-asbestos roofs with brick stacks. 3-unit through-passage plan in 2 builds plus added rear wing. 2 storeys plus attic. 2 bays to left of 3-window front are earlier and have a 2-storey late-C17 gabled porch projecting on the right, with a fine 4-centre-arched moulded entrance below a 3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned window, both with labels; earlier arched inner doorway has a plain chamfer and a fine contemporary ribbed door with a wooden latch. To left of porch at each floor is a 3-light transomed wooden window, altered to take wooden opening lights. Immediately left of porch is a similar single-light window (probably inserted) and to right are further similar windows of 3, 2 and 2 lights at ground floor; first floor has a 3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned window. Chamfered plinth is not continued on right side of porch and beyond; oval date plaque on the later bay is inscribed "T.W./1685" probably for Thomas Welman. Steep-pitched roof has stacks to left gable and to right of centre. Rear has further altered transomed windows plus ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights, now blocked by the C19 wing which returns from the right. Interior: chamfered beams. C17 steep-roofed outbuilding, extending from the left, has trusses which cross at the apex, and retains most of the loft floor. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p88; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p549)

Listing NGR: SP4889131706

External Links

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