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Designations

• Listed Building (II*) 1368241: YELFORD MANOR

Monument Type(s):

• MANOR HOUSE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Summary

Half timbered house with phases in C15-18. Central hall, flanked by solar and service wings. House restored since 1952.

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Description

SP30SE HARDWICK WITH YELFORD YELFORD
10/205 Yelford Manor
12/09/55 (Formerly listed as Manor House)
GV II*
Manor house, now house. Late C15 for the Hastings family; early C17 and C18 alterations. Timber-framed, of close studding; clad in C18 limestone rubble on right side and to rear right. Gabled stone slate roof; stone stack finished in C20 brick to left, and stone right end stack; large stone rear lateral stack with 3 ashlar octagonal flues. 2-storey hall range and cross wings. 2 storeys; 5-window range. Hall range: C20 door to left set in restored C20 frame; bay window above has early C17 ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned lights, and gablet with bargeboard; 4-light chamfered wood-mullioned window above early C18 four-light transomed window to right; 2-storey polygonal oriel in right bay of hall range has hollow-chamfered wood-mullioned windows (originally transomed on ground floor) and herringbone timbers in gablet. Jettied gable ends of side wings: C18 three-light leaded casement above C18 four-light mullioned and transomed window with shutters to right; restored 3-light wood-mullioned window above 5-light wood-mullioned window with leaded and lattice cames to left. 3-light wood-mullioned window to left side wall and 2 similar 2-light windows above altered 3-light window to rear of left wing. 2-bay stair turret adjoins rear left wing. C18 L-shaped service range to rear, remodelled in mid C19: of limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and gabled stone slate roof. Interior: studded partitions divide all rooms. Hall has C20 arch to open fireplace with moulded jambs; chamfered beam; screens passage has studded partition with 2 early C17 moulded doorways and studded door to left, and late C15 chamfered panelled screen to right, and chamfered arched doorway to rear. C20 winder stairs rise to first-floor gallery with arched hollow-chamfered doorways, one with Hastings monogram in spandrel; first floor of hall has cornice of late C15 fireplace to rear; 3-bay hall roof has 3 collar trusses, and an arch-braced collar-truss with arched windbraces and butt purlins, repaired with C17 brace. Service wing to left has 2 rooms with chamfered beam on ground floor, chamfered arched fireplace on first floor, and 4-bay collar-truss roof with arched windbraces and butt purlins. Parlour wing to right has similar 3-bay roof; early C17 panelled ground-floor room has Ionic pilaster, and an elaborately-carved overmantle with 3 blind arches divided by caryatids and a frieze of dragons with the arms of John Hastings and Mary Pudsey (married 1619). Stair-turret has queen-post truss. Many timbers have late C16 banded red and gold decoration - as at Church Farmhouse, South Leigh (q.v.). The first-floor hall fireplace, 2-storey oriel and indications of a blocked C15 first-floor window suggest that Yelford Manor originally had a 2-storey hall: the hall and side wings are not linked structurally and were probably built in stages.
(National Monuments Record; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.869; Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, PRN 11977 for drawings; Bodleian Library, Oxford, S.A. Eccles, Top, E,10, J.28 for 1895 photograph).
Listing NGR: SP35963047465
5) A measured survey of the building was carried out by J Steane, OCCM in advance of change of ownership. See report for details
6) Transferred to Local Studies (now Oxon History Centre) in 2009.
7 -8 )Transferred to Oxon History Centre, 09/02/15.
9) Transferred to Oxon History Centre in 2012.
10) Detailed assessment of house conducted by C Rosier of OCC Archaeological Service in Sept 1996; site visit in advance of proposal to convert some/all of buildings to holiday accommodation. Dating of individual ranges was provided; no suggestions regarding conversion

<1> Dept of Environment/DCMS, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, West Oxon List 106: 10/205, p.96 (Index). SOX260.

<2> Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1974, The Buildings of England - Oxfordshire, p.869 (Bibliographic reference). SOX380.

<3> Field Notes/Field Visit, Information from owners and J M Steane, September 1979 (Unpublished document). SOX261.

<5> CBA South Midlands Group, South Midlands Archaeology, NL 14 (1984) pp.76-7; see also NL 10 (1980) p.88 for description (Serial). SOX5.

<6> Oxfordshire Studies Map Cabinet, Plans, sections and elevations of manor (Graphic material). SOX2460.

<7> Photographic Archive, Detailed photographic record of many internal and external features of building. Xerox copies in DRF (Photograph). SOX304.

<8> Additional Information in Detailed Record File, Detailed descriptive notes and plan of alleged cruck construction (Index). SOX258.

<9> English Heritage (RCHME), 1987-1989, Historic Buildings Photographic Record Card (Photograph). SOX2063.

<10> OCC Archaeological Service, 1996, Manor Farm, Yelford (Unpublished document). SOX2212.

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