Description

WITNEY COGGES SP3609 8/80 Manor Farmhouse GV II*

Manor house, later farmhouse and now part of Cogges Manor Farm Museum. Mid C13 for the de Grey family; remodelled mid/late C16 for the Pope family; refronted and remodelled c.168O for the Blake family. Coursed and uncoursed limestone rubble; late C17 stucco front with ashlar quoins and dressings; gabled stone slate roof; stone stacks. C13 hall house (to rear) remodelled as L-plan with rear left wing. 2 storeys. Tall symmetrical 5-window range.Hood moulds over 3-light (to left) and 2-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows; central lateral stack and gable-end stacks with moulded ashlar flues. Rear: late C17 stair-turret and one- and 2-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows, and mid C19 Gothic porch. Similar mullioned window to gable ends. Two ranges to rear of similar materials: Former C13 hall: large C16 external lateral stack with ashlar flues, late C16 ovolo-moulded timber lintel over ovolo-moulded light, a late C17 cross window and hood mould over late C16 light with rebated architrave; left side wall has late C16 four-light and part-blocked 3-light oval-molded window and one stair-light, mid C13 two-light plate-tracery window with blocked trefoil to tympanum, and a similar window with cusped heads and moulded quatrefoil to tympanum. Former C13 service range to rear: C16 gable end stack with moulded ashlar flues; right side wall has Cl6 chamfered light above lean-to, a 2-light wood-mullioned window and ancient plank door set in C13 pointed archway; left side wall has mid C19 plank door and trellised porch to through-passage, a single late C17 leaded-light, 4-light chamfered wood-mullioned window with leaded-lights, and a restored similar 3-light window. Interior of front range: late C17 balection-panelled doors and attic-floor ribbed doors. Bolection-panelled room to right; room to left has similar dado, spit-racks over fireplace with pulvinated frieze and segmental-pedimented doorway to rear. Quarter-turn stairs with turned balusters set on closed string. First-floor rooms have late C17 moulded cornice, and from right to left: bolection-panelled overmantle over C16 stone fireplace with sunk spandrels; classical egg-and-dart and other painting to cornice and traces of painted imitation-panelling walls bolection-moulded overmantle over fireplace; C16 ovolo-moulded doorframe, to rear wing. 3-bay collar-truss roof with butt purlins, Interior of rear wing: stop-chamfered beams and late C17 bolection-panelled doors; open fireplace with chamfered bressumer flanked by copper and bread oven; through-passage flanked by C16 plank-and-stud partitions; similar partition, and ill pay-desk left of C13 door with pay-window opening to passage; centre of first floor has C17 closet with shelving adjoining stack; winder stairs; mid/late 16 collar-truss roofs with butt purlins and arch bracing. The C13 house originally consisted of a hall separated by a through-passage from a service range and with a solar wing absorbed into the late C17 house. An important house which retains many original features. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. (Buildings of England: 0xfordshire, p.551; J.M. Steane (Ed.), Cadges: a guide to the museum and village, 1984).

Listing NGR: SP3620609632

External Links

• Cogges Manor at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5141103

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas