Description

SP 6100 LITTLE MILTON 13/70 Manor House 18/07/63 GV II*

Manor house. C15 and C16, remodelled and extended late C18, storey added 1913. Roughcast limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, and some timber-framing with brick infill; plain-tile roof with brick stacks. Irregular courtyard plan. South front formerly 2 now 3 storeys. Late C18 five-window range (1:3:1) with central break and blind right bay, originally stuccoed, with ashlar quoins and plain architraves. Arched doorway to left of central window with 6-panelled and matching reveals, Adam-style fanlight and surrounding decoration, and wooden porch with triangular broken pediment, flanking pilasters and fluted Doric columns. Added floor has 3-light stone-mullioned windows and 3 gables with slit vents flanked by parapets. Triple French windows inserted in left bay under wooden verandah with Doric columns, and ornamental conservatory added to right bay. Four C18 sashes survive (one full-length) plus moulded stone cornice of original parapet. Interior: Entrance hall has Classical fireplace and modillion cornice with guttae. Drawing-room to right (c.1800) has internal square-headed stone-mullioned window with 2 trefoil-headed lights, recessed spandrels and original ferramenta opening from C15 room in right bay which retains mutilated beams, some moulded wooden cornice and 2 similar windows in right gable wall. Bow-ended room in left bay has C16 four-centre arched fireplace with stone jambs and timber bressumer. C16 west range is timber-framed with jowled posts and a door with richly-moulded central plank. In the north wing is a C15 three-bay rubble range with first-floor timber- framing to courtyard, originally an open hall plus 2-storey bay, now with large C16/17 stone stack and wide fireplace with cambered bressumer. Chamber has floor with heavy flat joists and remains of 2-light stone-mullioned window. Adjoining floor over passageway may be contemporary. 3-bay roof has intermediate hip truss over chamber and arch-braced collar-truss over hall with curved windbraces to single row of clasped purlins. Partitions are lost but evidence survives in tie-beam mortices. (V.C.H. Oxfordshire VII, p.121; Buildings of England, Oxfordshire, p.687-8)

Listing NGR: SP6196100723

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