Description

STEEPLE ASTON SOUTH SIDE
SP4725 (North side)
9/134
08/12/55 Manor Farmhouse
- II

Farmhouse. Early/mid C17, late C17 and C19, Coursed squared marlstone with
limestone dressings; marlstone and limestone rubble with wooden lintels;
Stonesfield-slate, Welsh-slate and artificial stone-slate roofs with ashlar and
brick stacks. L plan, partly infilled. 2 storeys. 3-window late-C17 marlstone
front, with chamfered plinth and moulded wooden eaves cove, has a 6-panel door
set to left of centre below a flat panelled canopy; to right at both floors are
pairs of stone-mullioned windows with transoms, but to left are larger 3-light
windows, with renewed wooden mullions and transoms and with wooden lintels. The
heads of the ground-floor windows are linked by a continuous moulded string. To
extreme left and right at first floor are rectangular stone panels containing
moulded ovals, probably intended for plaster or terracotta reliefs; there is a
similar panel on the right return wall. Both end walls have a small window with
a chamfered stone surround, and have gable parapets with projecting kneelers and
triangular copings with an apex roll. Right gable stack retains a pair of ashlar
diagonal shafts. Long rear wing, returning from left end, is probably earlier
and has casements with heavy stop-chamfered lintels; a lower granary bay at the
end has a 3-row gable dovecote and an external stone stair. Added C19 range
parallel to main range, is in coursed limestone rubble with flat arches.
Interior: Panelled doors and shutters in main range are all c.1800.
(VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p24; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p787)

Listing NGR: SP4729525791

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26520055

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)