Description

SP 83 SW NEWTON LONGVILLE WHADDON ROAD
2/127 Manor House and 2 barns
attached to S.E. corner
(formerly listed as
Manor House)
4.6.52

- II

House. C16, altered. Red brick, part with diapering in blue headers,
moulded stone and brick plinth, stone quoins. C20 tiled roof.
External brick chimney stacks with rectangular shafts and-stone quoins
to centres of rear and N.W. side. H_plan. 2½ storeys. N.E. front has
flanking gabled and projecting bays with altered C20 wooden casements
in segmental heads, 3-light to right, 2-light to ground floor of left
bay. Paired casements to attic, leaded to left, half leaded to right.
West return wall of left bay has paired leaded casement to ground
floor and 2 small openings with stone surrounds above, one blocked.
Return wall of right bay has blocked windows that to ground floor
with bonded stone surround. Central section has transomed 4-light
C20 leaded casement to ground floor and 2 leaded windows to first
floor, that to left a C16 2-light stone mullioned window with
arched lights, that to right a C17 moulded cross window. Door to
left in C15-early C16 4-centred moulded arch with carved spandrels
and flat hoodmould. Similar door to right is C19 copy. C16 moulded
stone panel with arms of New College, Oxford above left door. Rear
is part rendered with 3 leaded cross windows in surrounds of
chamfered brick. C19 and early C20 single storey extensions to
S. ends of side wings. Interior: W. wing has C16 stone arched fireplace
with carved spandrels in ground floor room to front, and C17
staircase with turned balusters, moulded string and handrail. Original
hall in central section has C16 moulded cross beams and dressed stone
jambs to fireplace. Barns, now part garages, are C17-early C18.
Blackened brick plinths, weatherboard on timber frame, half-hipped
thatch roofs. Larger barn to right is of 2 storeys and 2 bays. Left
bay has stable door and window, right bay has garage doors, boarded
service door next to house, small barred casement, and hayloft door
above. Braced tie beam, queen struts and large curved windbraces in
roof. Lower barn of one bay set back to left is similar but
slightly later.
RCHM II p 215 MON 2

Listing NGR: SP8475531369

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26511153

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)