Listed Buildings of Marston: Manor House, 15 Mill Lane
The Manor House at 15 Mill Lane, together with its front wall, is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/141).
Left: the Manor House in the early twentieth century
Below: The former Manor House: extract from an engraving after J. C. Buckler published in Gentleman’s Magazine 1816, lxxvi(2), 577.
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:
- 1883, 1891: Mrs Sims
- 1907: Robert Cave
- 1914: Robert Cave and Miss Cave
- 1915: Miss Cave
- By 1928 to after 1964: Arthur Henry Vernede.
