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Below is a list of some of the houses in Old Marston which have listed status. Information courtesy of Stephanie Jenkins - more information can be found at www.headington.org.uk

 

Long Farmhouse, 10 & 12 Elsfield Road, Old Marston

Long Farmhouse is Grade I listed (ref. 1485/139). It dates from the early eighteenth century, and is built from limestone rubble. It has a plain-tile roof, and rebuilt stone stacks. The porch dates from the nineteenth century.

The farmhouse has been divided into two houses numbered 10 and 12 Elsfield Road.

The Three Horseshoes, 9 Oxford Road, Old Marston

The Three Horseshoes pub is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/146). It dates from the mid- to late eighteenth century. It is built of limestone rubble, and has a plain-tile roof with brick gable stacks. It stands at right-angles to the White Hart behind.

Until 1735 the building was a blacksmith's attached to a farmhouse, which explains its name.

At the time of the 1901 census the publican was Richard Gurden (46). He lived at the Three Horseshoes with his wife Mary and their six children: Ethel (13), Margarata (12), Richard (9), May (6), William (4), and Hester (1). Also living with them were James's father, a retired publican of 79, and his sister Emily (53).

 

Some landlords of the Three Horseshoes:

Bishop's Farm, 41 Oxford Road, Old Marston

Bishop's Farm is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/149). It dates from the early eighteenth century, and is built of limestone rubble, with a plain-tile roof.

The house was restored in 1980, and won an award from the Oxford Preservation Trust.

Some occupants of Bishop's Farm

Court Place, 33 Oxford Road, Old Marston

Court Place is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/148). This former farmhouse dates from the early sixteenth century, and it was enlarged in the late seventeenth/early eighteenth century, and remodelled in about 1880. It is built of limestone rubble on a T-plan.

On 12 March 1483 (Bridgwater Deed 115) Hugh Shurley of Sandford and John Brireton of Abingdon enfeoffed William Hye of Marston and his wife Elizabeth in a messuage and virgate of land in Marston called "le Courtplace" and a water-mill (all of which they lately had of the feoffment of William Haye).

The farm was owned by Brasenose College from about 1500 to 1956, and a manorial court was held in the house. Important documents were signed "at the Court Place" in Marston at the time of the Wars of the Roses.

At the time of the 1881 census the farmhouse was occupied by Henry W. Boughton, an unmarried man of 30, described as a farmer of 160 acres employing five men, three women, and two boys. He was born in Stanton St John, and was living in this farmhouse with his widowed mother, Fanny Boughton, and his 13-year-old London-born niece, Alice Wymark. He was still listed in directories as a farmer here in 1913, but the 1901 census shows a different family living in the house: George Cross (35), a farmer and dairyman, with wife Clara and their four children: George (9), Clara (7), Aubrey (5), and Ernest (2).

 

Some other occupants:

1935, 1943: Charles R. Broughton, farmer

1947: John West was a dairy farmer at both Court Place and Grange farms

1958: Hugh Cardwell, D.Ph

 

Hill Farmhouse, Mill Lane, Old Marston

Hill Farmhouse is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/145). It has a date-stone of 1767, and was extended in the late eighteenth century. It is built of limestone rubble, with a stone-slate roof with brick gable stacks.

It is still a working farm, in the part of Old Marston now cut off by the bypass.

 

Farmers at Hill Farm

Former White Hart public house, 11 Oxford Road, Old Marston

The White Hart is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/147). It dates from the mid- to late seventeenth century, and is built of limestone rubble with a plain-tile roof. The bay on the far left was added later, probably in the eighteenth century.

The building was originally a house belonging to members of the Croke family. It was converted into a pub in 1801, and was owned by Morrell's.

At the time of the 1881 census Alfred Evans (42) who was living at the White Hart was described as a dairyman as well as a publican. With him were his wife Clara, his daughters Emily (17) and Lucy (15), and his son Arthur (15). Alfred (now described as a farmer and publican) was still at the pub twenty years later in 1901. Still living with Alfred and his wife was their son Arthur with his wife and three children, and they were also looking after another two of their grandchildren. Arthur eventually took over the pub.

The White Hart ceased to be a pub in 2003 and has been converted into flats, with more flats built in its two large fields behind

 

Some landlords of the White Hart

Gate piers in back gardens of 15 & 17 Mill Lane, Old Marston

A pair of gate piers dating from the mid- to late seventeenth century survive in the back gardens of the Manor House (15 Mill Lane) and Cromwell's house (17 Mill Lane). They are Grade II listed (ref. 1485/143 and 1485/144 respectively).

The piers are built of limestone, and have ball finials. They were probably built as the entrance to a walled garden when the two houses were one, probably by Unton Croke (d.1670) or his son. Remains of the walled garden also survive.

The Orchard, 20 Oxford Road, Old Marston

The Orchard is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/152). It dates from the early eighteenth century, and is built of limestone rubble. The farmyard was where Orchard Cottage at 18 Oxford Road now stands.

The house was inherited from John Sayer, a butler of Balliol College, by James Langford. It then passed to Ann Langford, who sold it to William Loder in 1813.

On Loder's death in 1818 it passed to his widow, Mary, who sold it to the Marston farmer, Richard Rippington. His widow inherited it in 1841, and she left it to her daughter, Mrs Mary Cannon, wife of the farmer William Cannon.

In 1876 Mary Cannon left it to her daughter, another Mary, who had married John Honour, and the couple were living in the house at the time of the 1881 census. John was then described as a 39-year-old builder who employed six men and one boy, and the couple had seven children: Mary (13), Helen (11), John (9), Alice (6), Charles (4), Margarete (2), and Henry (1). Also living with them was Mary's sister, Ann Cannon, an unmarried landowner of 34.

The Orchard ceased to be a farm in the late nineteenth century. John Honour was still living at the Orchard in 1913, and a Mrs Honour lived here in 1935 and 1947

 

Some other occupants of the Orchard:

Cross Farmhouse, 2 Oxford Road, Old Marston

Cross Farmhouse is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/151). It dates from the early seventeenth century, and is built of limestone rubble. The blind bay on the left is part of a former barn range, demolished in 1964.

At the end of the eighteenth century the farm was owned by Thomas Rowney of Oxford, followed by his son, and it then passed to a family named Phillott

The Rippington family owned it in the nineteenth century, farming it themselves until 1885.

The Haynes family then took over as tenant farmers, first Richard Haynes, and then his son Edwin in 1887. Edwin, at the age of 52, can be seen living here at the time of the 1901 census with his wife Helen and their four children. Walter (24, an ironmonger's assistant), Hubert (21, a worker on the farm), Charles (17, a cabinet maker's assistant), and Raymund (14).

Edwin Haynes bought the farm from the Rippingtons in 1920.

Charles Henry Haynes farmed here in 1935 and Raymund Haynes from at least 1943 to 1964.

Primrose Cottage, 65 Oxford Road, Old Marston

Primrose Cottage is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/150). It dates partly from the mid- to late seventeenth century, and partly from about 1900, and is built of limestone rubble with timber lintels, with a thatched and old plain-tile roof.

No. 63 was one-up, one-down cottage, with an outside wash-house at the rear adapted as a kitchen and toilet, and was occuped until about 1969 by Bert Ward and his wife.

Halford House, 8 Boults Lane, Old Marston

Halford House is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/131). This former farmhouse dates from the mid- to late seventeenth century. It is built of limestone rubble, with a concrete plain-tile roof and brick gable stacks.

 

Former occupants:

Church Farmhouse, Church Lane, Old Marston

Church Farmhouse is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/132). It dates from the early eighteenth century, or possibly earlier, and is built of limestone rubble, with an old plain-tile roof and brick stacks.

Church Farm belonged to the Loder family in the eighteenth and first part of the nineteenth century.

The Haynes family owned the farm from the later nineteenth century until about 1980. Albert Haynes is listed as a dairy farmer here in 1935 and simply as a farmer in 1947. Harold . Haynes farmed here in 1976.

Church of St Nicholas, Elsfield Road, Old Marston

 

The Church of St Nicholas is Grade I listed (ref. 1485/134). Parts of the original thirteenth-century church remain, but the exterior dates from the fifteenth and sixteenth century

The chancel arch (above and below) has traces of medieval wall-painting.

Below is an alabaster wall monument to the family of Sir Richard Croke (died 1683), son of Unton Croke. The arms at the top show Croke, quarterly, on the fesse, a label, on a martlet, sable: these denote the eldest son of a fourth son.

The church as a hagioscope or squint (below) to allow members of the congregation sitting in the south aisle to see the altar.

Alan Court, 13 Mill Lane, Old Marston

Alan Court (formerly Home Farm) at 13 Mill Lane is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/140). It dates from the early to mid-seventeenth century, and was extended in about 1800 and remodelled around 1900. It is built of limestone rubble, and has an artficial stone-slate roof. On the right is an attached barn or outbuilding.

It is now a private house, but was formerly the farmhouse for the large dwelling known as the Manor House that stood on the site of 15 Mill Lane and 17 Mill Lane.

At the time of the 1901 census, this house was occupied by Francis Haynes, the 38-year-old farmer of Home Farm, and his wife Mary. Their eldest son, Francis, was already working on the farm at the age of 14, and they had three younger children still at school: Sidney (11), Cecilia (7), and Bernard (5).

When the house was owned by Mrs Wood in the mid-twentieth century, May dancing was performed on the large ciruclar lawn every year.

 

Some other occupants of Alan Court:

Manor House, 15 Mill Lane, Old Marston

The Manor House at 15 Mill Lane, together with its front wall, is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/141).

In 1617 Unton Croke married Anne Hoare and through her inherited land in Marston. He rebuilt the house that stood on the site of the present 15 and 17 Mill Lane, and it became known as the Mansion House. It was used as Fairfax's headquarters during the siege of Oxford in 1645, and the Treaty for the Surrender of Oxford was signed here in 1646.

Much of the western section (off the picture on the left) survives as Cromwell House, but the part of the house to the east was destroyed by fire in the mid-eighteenth century and in 1843 it was rebuit in its present form as shown above and named the Manor House.

 

Some later occupants of the Manor House:

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