Description

SIBFORD GOWER
SP3436-3536
16/266
Manor House
20.11.86
GV
II
3 cottages/farmhouse now large, irregular rambling house. C17 with additions and
alterations of c.1910-5. 3 ranges and a square tower with brick flying
buttresses. Picturesque Arts and Crafts style. Left barn/hall range. Coursed
ironstone rubble. Hipped, thatched roof. Large projecting lateral brick stack. 2
Early English lancets and C19 casements. Left end has oriel window to c.1910
'minstrel's gallery'. Central range. Coursed ironstone rubble. Hipped, thatched
roof. 2 brick end stacks, one with diagonally set shafts. 2 storeys plus attic.
L-plan. Rear. 4-window range. 2-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds
and label stops. 4 metal casements in wood frames, with hood lintels. Latticed
lights. Some crown glass. Large dormer with latticed lights. Front has C20
four-centred arched doorways with C20 plank or stable doors. C20 casements.
Square tower of coursed ironstone rubble. Lancets and brick flying buttresses.
Right range. Brick to rear, coursed ironstone on front. Hipped and gabled
thatched roof. Front has 2- and 3-light casements in wood frames with wood
lintels and 3-light stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops.
Pent. Interior: C17 part has stop-chamfered beams, inglenook with chamfered
bressumer, stone flag floors, plank door, window seats, shutters and panelling.
Hall has c.1910 interior with 3-bay pegged, principal rafter roof, dias,
'minstrels gallery' and large fireplace. Elsewhere details of c.1910-5 including
brick fireplaces, wooden stairs and roofs. Additions and alterations were made
in c.1910-5 for the pageant master Frank Lascelles.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p767)

Listing NGR: SP3522237843

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26650919

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy