North Aston Manor North Aston, England
Listed Building Data
North Aston Manor has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1200646
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 8 December 1955
- Name
- NORTH ASTON MANOR
- Location
- NORTH ASTON MANOR, SOMERTON ROAD
- Parish
- North Aston
- District
- Cherwell
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SP 47958 29096
- Easting
- 447958.0000
- Northing
- 229096.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
SP42NE NORTH ASTON SOMERTON ROAD (South side) 5/279 North Aston Manor 08/12/55 II Manor house. Probably C15, altered and re-modelled C17, and extended early C18, C19 and 1911. Partly-coursed limestone rubble witn some wooden lintels and some ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roofs with stone-and-brick stacks. Main range plus cross-wings, probably deriving from a hall house. 2 storeys. Garden front has a recessed central section with 3 renewed cross-windows at ground floor and large C20 casements above; to right, in the angle with the cross-wing, are 2 stair projections with casements and a sash window. Left cross wing is probably C17 or earlier and has a stone-architraved window above a 3-light casement. C18 right cross-wing is taller and has an ashlar storeyband and 12-pane sashes with plain stone architraves and projecting keyblocks, both wings have hipped roofs and stone-based lateral stacks, the 2 to left with large projections and some rebuilt diagonal shafts. Rear of left wing is wider and has a pair of windows with moulded keyblock surrounds; the return to the central range has a plinth and buttress and may be medieval. Adjoining it, a fine C15 doorway in the main range has a 4-centre-arched surround with continuous wave mouldings below a hood mould. Right side of C18 wing has a 3-window arrangement of stone-architraved sashes, those at ground floor with thick glazing bars; an inserted doorway, now the main entrance, replicates the medieval door. To rear of the right wing is a long range of 1911. Interior: central range has a 4-centre-arched chamfered stone doorway with a hood mould, and has roof trusses with low cambered collars which may be medieval. Left range has very thick walls, and includes a wide segmental-arched stone fireplace with impost blocks and keyblock, above which is some bolection-mould panelling. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p719; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p11)
Listing NGR: SP4795829096
