Greys Court, Dower House Rotherfield Greys, England
Listed Building Data
Greys Court, Dower House has been designated a Grade I 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1047391
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 24 October 1951
- Name
- GREYS COURT, DOWER HOUSE
- Location
- GREYS COURT, DOWER HOUSE
- Parish
- Rotherfield Greys
- District
- South Oxfordshire
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SU 72544 83383
- Easting
- 472544.2430
- Northing
- 183382.9900
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
ROTHERFIELD GREYS SU78SW 6/124 Greys Court, Dower House 24/10/51 (Formerly listed as Greys Court including Batchelors Hall, The Well House, and Towers NE, NW and SW of house) GV I Formerly known as Batchelors Hall. House. C14 tower with C16 house attached, with later alterations. Flint with stone dressings to tower; red brick to house; plain old tile roof; brick stacks. Octagonal tower to right with rectangular-plan house to left. 2 storey, 2-window range to house. 3 storey tower. Slit window to each side of tower to ground and first floor. Single light window to each side of second floor of tower. Crenellated parapet; octagonal pyramidal roof. Central C20 sash door with stone surround with label mould with dropped ends to house. 3-light casements to all openings with stone surrounds with label moulds with dropped ends. Large brick stack at junction of house and tower. Rear: Irregular fenestratiion, 4 cross gables to roof. Interior not inspected. Motto over entrance door: "Melius nil coelibe vita" (Nothing is better than the celibate life). History: Licence to crenellate granted to Sir John de Grey in 1347. (Buildings of England : Oxfordshire, p.735-7; Greys Court, National Trust Guidebook, 1982).
Listing NGR: SU7254583384
