Deddington Manor

Heritage listing

Details SP4631 DEDDINGTON NEW STREET (West side) 8/219 Deddington Manor 08/12/55 GV II Small country house. Circa 1800 probably for Samuel Churchill, extended c.1840 and early C20. Marlstone ashlar and coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh-slate roofs with ashlar stacks. Cruciform plan with service range plus extensions. Neo-classical style. 2 storeys and 3 storeys. Principal front, facing garden, has a projecting 3-storey central section, with French window at ground floor, a stone-architraved tripartite sash at first floor, linked by its keyblock to a moulded cornice, and a triangular-pedimented attic storey with a Diocletian window and panelled corner pilasters. Cornice and first-floor storeyband return and are carried across a blind 2-storey bay to left, which also has a large panel at first floor; corresponding bay to right is masked by an early-C20 ashlar extension in similar style. Left end of range forms a shallow bow with three 12-pane sashes at first floor, and matching sashes below flanking a French window; an added bay of c.1840, beyond the bow, has a further sash above a full-height tripartite sash. Shallow-pitched roofs are concealed by plain parapets rising from the cornices. Right end of main range, facing road, has a symmetrical 3-window arrangement of sashes, plus a central doorway with ornamental overlight and a stone triangular-pedimented Roman-Doric porch; added bay to left has a sash at first floor. To right, a 2-storey blind arch links to the lower 2-storey rubble service range which has two 3-light leaded casements at each floor plus a C20 doorway; it returns in an L-shape. Rear of main range includes a 3-storey central section with a tall arched stair window. Interior: some contemporary joinery, fireplaces and friezes; oak-stair

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.