Listed buildings are those which have been formally identified by Historic England (or its predecessors) as being of special architectural or historic interest.
Becoming listed does not mean that a building is ‘pickled’, simply that the features that make it important in a locality will need to be considered if planning permission or demolition is mooted, or if alterations wish to be made that might alter the character or appearance of the building. Listing provides a degree of statutory protection and is administered by the Local Planning Authority which has the power to grant Listed Building Consent (LBC) that will allow change to take place.
There are three levels of listing: Grade I for buildings which are of exceptional interest (and usually of national importance); Grade II for buildings which are of special interest in a locality, and Grade II* for buildings of Grade II which are of are of particular interest but which are not considered to be worthy of Grade I status.
Historic England holds a full catalogue of all listed buildings in England on its website; those for Tysoe (including a few other Tysoe-related sites) can be found through the following link:
There are 48 listed buildings in Tysoe parish, the most significant being St Mary’s Church (Grade I). The rest are all Grade II with the exception of Tysoe Manor and the churchyard cross which both have the slightly higher status of being Grade II*.
Listed buildings do not necessarily have to be ‘buildings’ in the accepted sense and the churchyard cross and several grave memorials are among those listed here.
The majority of Tysoe’s listed buildings lie within two Conservation Areas, in Upper and Middle Tysoe respectively. These are areas which have been defined as being ‘of special architectural or historic interest, the character of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance’. In a Conservation Area, consent is required for any new development, demolition work or tree felling with the aim of protecting or enhancing the special character or appearance of the whole area. The maps of Upper and Middle Tysoe also show the boundaries of the two Conservation Areas.
The Historic England website also gives a brief description of each listed building outlining its importance and the reasoning behind its inclusion. Many entries also contain photographs. As the listings for Tysoe took place between the 1960s and 1980s the Tysoe Heritage Research Group (THRG) took on the task of updating the photographs and adapting the Historic England descriptions to support a less technical level of readership. THRG’s numbering of the Tysoe entries roughly reflects a north/south ‘trail’ through the three Tysoes and is supported by maps, although there are some outliers. Each entry is also cross-referenced to the numbering on the Historic England national list.
Listed Buildings in the Lower Tysoe area
Listed Buildings in Middle Tysoe
Listed Buildings in the Upper Tysoe area
It is important to remember that, with the exception of the Church and the graveyard, these buildings are privately owned and not open to the public. The majority of the images included below are taken from public space but there are a number which have been taken from within private gardens by kind permission of the property owners at the time the photos were taken. All such images are identified within the caption. The THRG is grateful to all those residents who allowed access and kindly permitted the images to appear here.
Listed Buildings in the Lower Tysoe area
1 Hardwick Farmhouse
2 Cottage approximately 15m S of Somerton, Kineton Road
3 Home Farmhouse and attached outbuilding range, Lane End, Lower Tysoe
4 Stable block SW of Home Farmhouse, Lane End, Lower Tysoe
5 Badger’s Farmhouse, Badgers Lane, Lower Tysoe
6 Corner Farmhouse, Badgers Lane, Lower Tysoe
7 Greenacre Farmhouse, Badgers Lane, Lower Tysoe
46 Westcote Manor, Tysoe
47 Edge Hill Farmhouse and attached outbuildings, Tysoe
48 Sunrising House, Banbury Road, Tysoe
1. Hardwick Farmhouse. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1364774 (1988)
This ironstone farmhouse was built in two phases. The older part dates from the 17th century and extends rearwards from the late 18th century front range. The older part has stone mullioned windows with hood moulds which deflect rainwater. The later part has a central doorway with 16-pane sash windows in ashlar (stones with smoothed surfaces and straight edges that fit together neatly) surrounds.
2. Cottage approximately 15m S of Somerton, Kineton Road. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035531 (1988)
A house built in the 17th century using roughly squared ironstone laid in courses. At the time of listing it had a corrugated iron roof. Built mainly of 2 storeys it has a one-storey range to its right. There are several windows with stone mullions with hood moulds which project from the surrounding stonework to deflect rainwater with label stops (the ends of the hood moulds are turned away from the window horizontally).
3. Home Farmhouse and attached outbuilding range, Lane End, Lower Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1186125 (1988)
This 17th century farmhouse has two date stones, showing 1655 and 1691 respectively, the latter being on the left hand gable. Built from roughly squared ironstone with a modern tile roof, it has three brick chimney stacks. The surround of the doorway is moulded stone with a hood mould to deflect rainwater and unusual diamond-shaped stops at each end. This detail is largely obscured by a modern gable porch. To the left of the door is a 4-light stone mullioned window with a hood mould. To the centre and right of the ground floor, and to the first floor, there are 19th century 8-pane sliding sashes with wood lintels. To the right of the house is an 18thcentury one-storey outbuilding range (see number 4 below).
4. Stable block SW of Home Farmhouse, Lane End, Lower Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035532 (1988)
An 18th century building of coursed ironstone rubble (unworked stone) which the listing describes as having a corrugated iron roof over thatch with wooden lintels to doors and windows. Relates to Number 3 above.
5. Badger’s Farmhouse, Badgers Lane, Lower Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref1364777 (1988)
This late 17th century farmhouse is built of undressed rough stone, known as rubble, laid in irregular courses. When it was first listed, its roof was thatch, covered with corrugated iron. Now it has a plain clay tile roof with roof lights, and a flat canopy over the door. One window at the front retains its hood mould to deflect rainwater; others have original wooden lintels.
6. Corner Farmhouse, Badgers Lane, Lower Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1186115 (1988)
A 17th century farmhouse which was built using roughly squared ironstone laid in courses. It has a tiled roof and a brick chimney stack on the ridge. The windows have stone mullions with hood moulds (which project from the surrounding stonework to deflect rainwater) with label stops (the ends of the hood moulds are turned away from the window horizontally).
7. Greenacre Farmhouse, Badgers Lane, Lower Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035529 (1988)
This farmhouse dates from the late 17th century and was built in two phases with the later addition to the right. It was built in roughly squared ironstone laid in courses, with a (part) stone slate and (part) slate roof with stone chimney stacks at the ends of the roof ridges. All the windows have mullions and hood moulds to deflect rainwater with label stops, turning out horizontally at each end.
Listed Buildings in Middle Tysoe
8 Brooklands, Peacock Lane, Middle Tysoe
9 The Cottage, Peacock Lane, Middle Tysoe
10 Home Farmhouse and attached outbuilding range, railings base and four piers, Main Street, Middle Tysoe
11 Outbuilding range behind Home Farmhouse, Main St, Middle Tysoe
12 Barn E of Home Farmhouse, Main Street, Middle Tysoe
13 Church Farmhouse and attached outbuilding, Main St, Middle Tysoe
14 Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Main Street, Middle Tysoe
15 3 chest tombs 10m S of tower at St Mary’s Church, Middle Tysoe
16 Chest tomb 7m S of porch of St Mary’s Church
17 Chest tomb 8m S of chancel of St Mary’s Church
18 Headstone 15m S of chancel of St Mary’s Church
19 Preaching cross approx. 10m south of the nave of St Mary’s Church
20 Tysoe C of E Primary School, Middle Tysoe
21 Chamfered End, Saddledon Street, Middle Tysoe
22 Herbert’s Farmhouse, Kirkland’s Farmhouse, Saddledon Street, Middle Tysoe
23 Shelter shed SW of Herbert’s Farmhouse, Middle Tysoe
24 Ivy Cottage, Back Lane, Middle Tysoe
25 Mount Ash, Back Lane, Middle Tysoe
26 Barn and stable block N of Mount Ash, Back Lane, Middle Tysoe
27 Oakapple Cottage, Back Lane, Middle Tysoe
28 Bretby, Back Lane, Middle Tysoe
29 Police house and adjoining two cottages, The Green, Middle Tysoe
30 Spar Store, Main Street, Middle Tysoe
31 Post Office and Village Room, Main Street, Middle Tysoe
32 The Elms, Sandpits Road, Middle Tysoe
33 Home Farmhouse, Sandpits Road, Middle Tysoe
8. Brooklands, Peacock Lane, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035539 (1988)
According to the statutory list, this 18thcentury house possibly has earlier (unspecified) origins. It is built mainly in ironstone ashlar (worked stones with smoothed surfaces and straight edges that fit together neatly). By contrast, the right-hand gable is built with roughly squared blocks laid in courses. The gable ends have coping stones with shaped supporting stones, sometimes known as ‘kneelers’. There is an early 19th century brick range extending from the rear.
9. The Cottage, Peacock Lane, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1031554 (1997)
This was originally a 17th century one-room plan cottage with an internal gable-end chimney stack, and a winding stair beyond it. In the late 18th or early 19thcentury the roof was raised, and a bay window was built on the front. In the 20th century a single-storey kitchen extension was added to the left-hand end and a two-storey extension to the rear.
10. Home Farmhouse and attached outbuilding range, railings base and four piers. Main Street, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035533 (1952)
This farmhouse was built in the early to mid-18th century, using ironstone ashlar (stones with smoothed surfaces and straight edges that fit together neatly). It has very distinctive Venetian-style windows and door surround, the latter having a hood supported on curved brackets. Although there are no longer any railings, the piers and base which once supported them remain in situ. To the left of the house, there is a range of 19th century outbuildings with two round-headed arch openings with plank doors.
11. Outbuilding range behind Home Farmhouse, Main Street, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1186153 (1952)
This 17th century outbuilding was possibly formerly a rear wing of the farmhouse. It has a slate roof with chimney flues that are diagonally set in the stacks, and a mullioned window to the left of the door and at first floor level. Attached to left of the building is a 19th century outbuilding range with Early English style doorways.
12. Barn E of Home Farmhouse, Main Street, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035534 (1988)
A late 17th century barn built using local roughly squared blocks of ironstone, and a slate roof.
13. Church Farmhouse and attached outbuilding, Main Street Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035535(1988)
This farmhouse has a date stone on the front wall indicating a construction date of 1617. It was altered and raised in the 19th century. It is built with roughly squared blocks of ironstone laid in courses, and has an old tiled roof with chimney stacks on the ridge and at the ends of the ridge. Either side of the central door there are 3-light casement windows with wooden lintels, and at first floor level, four smaller 3-light casements, all windows having wooden lintels. At the rear there is an outbuilding range which is included for its Group Value.
14. Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Main Street, Middle Tysoe. Grade I.
Listing Ref 1186160 (1966)
This is the only Grade I Listed Building in the village. The earliest elements of the nave date from the very late 11th century or the early 12th century. The south arcade was the original south wall of an earlier church, evidenced by the remains of two early windows above the arches of the south arcade. The western end of the nave would probably originally have been approximately level with the westernmost column of the existing arcade, where a change of masonry can be detected. The north wall of the original church nave would have been where the north arcade now stands.
Archaeological investigations undertaken in connection with the construction of the toilet and kitchen/utility room in 2006 found the foundations of a possible earlier tower. This tower would have been demolished to facilitate the lengthening of the nave in the 12th century and the erection of the present tower, which is slightly skewed in relation to the nave. The south aisle was added some time in the later 12th century; the present doorway is 12th century but may not always have been in this position. The north aisle dates from the 14th century, and the chancel from the late 15th century. In the 15th century, the south porch was built and the top stage of the tower added.
Sir George Gilbert Scott was responsible for the refurbishment of the church in the mid-1850s, and the vestry and organ chamber were added to the north of the chancel in 1872. For more detailed information on the building history and its contents click here.
15. Three chest tombs 10m S of tower at St Mary’s Church, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 136477 (1988)
A group of three 18th and early 19th century chest tombs. The one nearest the path (memorial 371) has side panels and moulded balusters (shaped to simulate vertical supports) at the corners. The central one (memorial 370) is dated 1713 and has moulded consoles (a type of scroll shaped bracket) at the corners. The tomb nearest the church tower (memorial 369) is dated 1817 and is panelled with moulded balusters at the corners. All have plinths and ledgers (a flat stone slab covering a grave). Click on the memorial links for further details and inscriptions etc.
16. Chest tomb 7m S of porch of St Mary’s Church. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1299339 (1988)
A 17th century chest tomb (memorial 222) with a worn inscription and a heavy moulded ledger (the flat stone slab covering the grave). Click on the memorial link for further details and inscriptions etc.
17. Chest tomb 8m S of chancel of St Mary’s Church. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035536 (1988)
This 18th century chest tomb (memorial 55) has a moulded plinth, panelled sides and moulded balusters (shaped to simulate vertical supports) at the corners. Click on the memorial link for further details and any inscriptions etc.
18. Headstone 15m S of chancel of St Mary’s Church. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1186171 (1988)
An ironstone headstone (memorial 103) with heavy moulded surrounds representing scrolls and swags and a damaged right corner. The inscription records the death of Alice Cottrell who died on 28th December 1682. Click on the memorial link for further details and inscriptions etc.
19. Churchyard cross approx. 10m S of nave of St Mary’s Church. Grade II*.
Listing Ref 1035537(1988)
A 15th century ironstone churchyard cross, on a two-stage polygonal plinth. The shaft of the cross rises from a square base which is a later reconstruction in 1888 (images below). Part of the shaft and part of the top of the cross is missing. Unusually, this cross is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
20. Tysoe C of E Primary School, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1299348 (1988)
The school was built in 1857-9 to the design of Sir George Gilbert Scott with additions in 1872 and the 20th century and which include the headmaster’s house. Scott (1811-1878) was a prolific Gothic Revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and restoration of churches and cathedrals. His well-known work includes the Albert Memorial, and the Midland Hotel at St Pancras. Walton Hall, near Wellesbourne, is another of his designs. According to the biographer of Joseph Ashby “a Mr Gilbert Scott” had come to Tysoe to give the vicar some advice about the church, and it would seem that out of this encounter the decision to commission a school building was taken. The school is built of local ironstone, some of which is roughly squared and laid in courses; elsewhere ashlar is used (stones with smoothed surfaces and straight edges that fit together neatly). The gables have coping stones; the windows have mullions with pointed arch lintels. In the right-hand gable facing the footpath and church, there is a niche with the inscription ‘Feed my Lambs’, and a small bell-turret on the end of one roof.
21. Chamfered End, Saddledon Street. Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1299315 (1988)
A house built in the mid 19thcentury using ironstone ashlar (stones with smoothed surfaces and straight edges that fit together neatly). Built on a stone plinth it has a slightly projecting band of stone (known as a storey band) below the upper floor. At eaves level there is a moulded cornice and there are coping stones on the ends of the roof. Although not mentioned in the statutory list, the corner of the building where it abuts Back Lane has an unusual chamfer at street level, allegedly incorporated to allow farm wagons to turn in the space at the end of the lane (see photo).
22. Herbert’s Farmhouse, Kirkland’s Farmhouse, Saddledon Street, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1186200 (1966)
This farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings, dates from the early/mid 17th century, and was restored in the 19th century. It is built with roughly squared ironstone laid in courses. Larger blocks, known as quoins, are at the left-hand corner. The stone chimney stacks have distinctive square flues linked by a moulded stone cornice. The mullioned windows at ground, first and attic storeys have been replaced in the past. All have hood moulds to deflect rainwater with short label stops turning out horizontally at the ends. A notable feature is the long 17th century thatched one storey range extending to the rear from the right-hand end.
23. Shelter shed SW of Herbert’s Farmhouse, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1364780 (1988)
This shelter shed dates from the 18th century. It backs onto Saddledon Street and its rear wall is built with roughly squared ironstone laid in courses. The front is later weatherboard. Its thatched roof is half-hipped at the right hand end, meaning the thatch is taken partway down the stone gable end.
24. Ivy Cottage, Back Lane, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035527 (1988)
This 17th century cottage has 20thcentury additions. It is built of roughly squared ironstone laid in courses with large dressed blocks (known as quoins) at the corners. The roof is a recently replaced steeply-pitched complex thatch over attic windows, with a later slate roof over the 20th century range.
25. Mount Ash, Back Lane, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1186111 (1988)
This was formerly a farmhouse built in the early/mid 17th century, and later restored in the 19th century. The walls are roughly squared ironstone laid in courses and the stone slate roof has coping stones at the gables. There are stone chimney stacks at the ridge ends, with flues linked by a moulded cornice. The house has two storeys plus an attic, the latter having three gabled dormer windows. All the windows have leaded lights and stone mullions. Some have hood moulds to deflect rainwater with ‘turned out’ label stops at the ends. At the rear, there is a large two storey 18th century range . This house forms a group with its barn and stable block (see 26 below).
26. Barn and stable block N of Mount Ash, Back Lane, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1364776 (1988)
This barn and stable block at the rear of Mount Ash has been protected as it forms an important part of the building complex associated with Mount Ash house (see above 25). The barn was built in the late 18th century. With the exception of the left gable which is built of brick, the remainder of the building is local ironstone that has been roughly squared and laid in courses. Both the barn and attached stable block have slate roofs; the former has coping stones on the gable ends. At the centre of the barn facade is a pair of full-height plank doors with a wooden lintel at eaves level. Two small windows at high level either side of the central door admit light to the interior. The barn roof is supported by paired splayed timbers resting on a tie beam (known as a queen-strut roof), with a timber ‘collar’ above.
27. Oakapple Cottage, Back Lane, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035528 (1960)
This 17th century house has walls of roughly squared ironstone laid in courses with large dressed stone blocks known as quoins at the corners. Its slate roof has coping stones supported on shaped stone blocks known as ‘kneelers’ at its left hand end. Some of the windows have hood moulds to deflect rainwater with ‘turned out’ label stops at the ends.
28. Bretby, Back Lane, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listed Ref 1186112 (1988)
This was formerly two cottages built in the 18th century using local ironstone roughly squared and laid in courses. The main roof is thatched with a brick chimney stack at the end, and the central plank door has a thatched canopy. There are leaded casement windows either side of the door at ground and first floor level.
29. Police house and adjoining two cottages, The Green, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1364800 (1988)
This row of three cottages date from the 18th century and were built in roughly squared ironstone laid in courses. There are coping stones with kneelers (shaped stone blocks supporting the copings) separating the three thatched roofs and at the ends of the row. All the cottages have 20th century doors with wooden gabled hoods.
30. Spar Store, Main Street, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1186179 (1988)
Now Tysoe Village Store, this mid-18th century building was formerly a house or two cottages. The front is Ironstone ashlar (stones with smoothed surfaces and straight edges that fit together neatly). The doorways and ground floor windows have stone lintels with keyblocks, while the 3-light upper windows have wooden lintels.
31. Post Office and Village Room, Main Street, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035538 (1988)
These adjoining buildings date from the 18th and early 19th centuries. They are partly ironstone ashlar (stones with smoothed surfaces and straight edges that fit together neatly). Elsewhere roughly squared stone has been used. The Post Office has a stone tiled roof, with a coped gable to the left. The range to the left of the Post Office has a slate roof. The Post Office has a 19th century shop front with a recessed door. Adjacent to the doorway and at each end of the windows, there is a stone plinth with wood pilasters above (vertical structural features that are also decorative and project slightly in front of the wall).The building to the left of the Post Office has a central plank door and a 16-pane sash window, and attached to the left of that is an 18th century building with its gable to the road, with a large 1914-1918 war memorial tablet.
32. The Elms, Sandpits Road, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035496 (1966)
The date stone on the prominent gable wing of this house shows it was built in 1613 and rebuilt in 1856. Its walls are roughly squared ironstone laid in courses, with large dressed blocks (quoins) at the corners. Its windows have leaded lights, hood moulds to deflect rainwater with turned out ends, known as label stops.
33. Home Farmhouse, Sandpits Road, Middle Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1186217 (1966)
A house built in the mid 17th century, probably restored in the 19th century. Built of roughly squared ironstone laid in courses it has large dressed stones, known as quoins, at the corners. The slate roof has coping stones on the gables and stone chimney stacks on the ridge and at each end. There are 19th century stone mullioned windows with hood moulds with label stops (turning out at the end) to deflect rainwater. At the right-hand end there is a one-story addition with a lean-to type roof.
Listed Buildings in the Upper Tysoe area
34 The Willows and attached outbuilding, Old Tree Lane, Upper Tysoe
35 Rose Cottage and attached outbuilding, Baldwins Lane, Upper Tysoe
36 Stone House, Baldwins Lane, Upper Tysoe
37 House 3m S of No 1 Old Tree Lane, Upper Tysoe
38 Brown Cottage, Shipston Road, Upper Tysoe
39 Green Cottage, Shipston Road, Upper Tysoe
40 Cornerways, Shipston Road, Upper Tysoe
41 Winchcombe Barn and attached shelter
42. Home Farmhouse, Epwell Road, Upper Tysoe
43. Tysoe Manor and attached wall, Upper Tysoe
44. Wall approximately 11m S of Tysoe Manor, Upper Tysoe
45. Windmill, Windmill Hill, Upper Tysoe
34. The Willows and attached outbuilding, Old Tree Lane, Upper Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1364779 (1988)
Probably built in two phases in the early 18th century, this house has roughly squared ironstone walls and a thatched roof. The left-hand end was originally an outbuilding.
35. Rose Cottage and attached outbuilding, Baldwins Lane, Upper Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035530 (1988)
This is an 18th century house with 19th century additions and built of roughly squared ironstone with larger dressed blocks (known as quoins) at the corners. Its tiled roof has stone end stacks. It has 2-, 3- and 4-light mullioned windows, all with hood moulds to deflect rainwater. The later addition has 3-light leaded casements, and attached to its right is an outbuilding with a plank door.
36. Stone House, Baldwins Lane, Upper Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1186117 (1988)
An imposing late 18th century house of ironstone ashlar (stones with smoothed surfaces and straight edges that fit together neatly). There are large dressed blocks, known as quoins, at the corners, and a mixture of stone and wood lintels over the three storeys of windows. The chimney stacks have square flues linked by a moulded cornice.
37. House 3m S of No 1 Old Tree Lane, Upper Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1186194 (1988)
This house, fronting onto Main Street, was formerly two cottages and dates from the late 17th century with a late 18th century addition attached to the left. The roof is massively thatched with attic windows set into it. The plank door has a small oval window above it. Two ground floor windows and one attic window have stone hood moulds with label stops (turned out at the ends) to deflect rainwater. The listing mentions a ‘lead firemark’. In the 18th and 19th centuries, houses with insurance against fire mounted these fire marks on their outside wall to indicate to the fire fighters employed by the insurance company that they should attempt to put the fire out.
38. Brown Cottage, Shipston Road, Upper Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1364799 (1987)
With its attached neighbour, Green Cottage (see 39 below) this cottage has been listed for its Group Value. Thought to date from the late 17th and early 18th century, it is built from roughly squared ironstone laid in courses. The thatched roof has brick chimney stacks at each end. It comprises one storey with an attic. To left and right of the central door are two-light leaded casement windows, with another leaded window high up in the left-hand gable. The door has a thatched canopy.
39. Green Cottage, Shipston Road, Upper Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035497 (1988)
This 17th century cottage is listed for its Group Value alongside Brown Cottage (see 38 above). Built like its neighbour it has roughly squared ironstone laid in irregular courses with large stone blocks known as quoins at the right-hand end. It comprises one storey with an attic and the thatched roof extends down either side of a small attic window. The door and the 2-light leaded casement to the right of it have a continuous wooden lintel. The attic is lit by a central 3-light part-leaded casement.
40. Cornerways, Shipston Road, Upper Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1299287 (1960
This house dates from the mid-17th century and is built of roughly squared ironstone laid in courses with larger blocks, known as quoins, at the corners. It has a 20th century tiled roof with brick chimney stacks. Its 17th century windows have stone mullions with hood moulds which project from the surrounding stonework to deflect rainwater with label stops (the ends of the hood moulds are turned away from the window horizontally). Apart from its intrinsic interest, it is included in the list because it of its group value with the adjacent cottages facing Shipston Road.
41. Winchcombe Barn and attached shelter. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1186108 (1988)
At the time of listing, this 18th century barn built of roughly squared ironstone had a corrugated iron roof, and the wing extending forward was an open-fronted shelter, with a corrugated asbestos roof. It has since been converted to residential use.
42. Home Farmhouse, Epwell Road, Upper Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1299350 (1988)
A mid-18th century farmhouse of roughly squared ironstone laid in courses with a reconstituted stone roof. Either side of the door there are 2-light mullioned windows. Elsewhere there are 3-light iron casements. All windows have stone lintels with keyblocks, shaped a little like inverted triangles. To the left of the main front of the house is a 19th century addition.
43. Tysoe Manor and attached wall. Upper Tysoe. Grade II*.
Listing Ref 1186224 (1952)
The western part of the manor dates from the late 14th century with original roof trusses and a 2-light window. Moving east there is a 17th century extension with 3- and 4-light mullioned windows, all with hood moulds (to deflect rainwater) with label stops (turning outwards at the ends). The two gabled dormers have 2-light mullioned windows. Further east again there is a large wing built in the 1930s, in keeping with the older parts. The whole building is constructed of squared ironstone laid in courses, with a stone slate roof. Stone chimney stacks with diagonally set flues rise from the roof ridge and ends. An 18th century ironstone wall with three courses of coping stones extends forwards about 10m from the front of the house.
44. Wall approximately 11m S of Tysoe Manor (ref 43 above), Upper Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035498 (1988)
An 18th century wall long of roughly squared ironstone with quoins and coping runs from about 11m in front of the house and extends for about 35m along the side of the driveway (see photo below).
45. Windmill, Windmill Hill, Upper Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1364775 (1952)
The windmill was built in the 18th century with roughly squared ironstone laid in courses, with a later lead roof. It is polygonal in plan and tapers towards the top. The plank door has a round-headed arch and larger dressed stones form the architrave. At a higher level and to the right of the entrance door is a small planked door with a stone lintel. To the right, there is a small plank door with chamfered stone lintel. According to the Historic England website (attributed to Guy Blythman 11.08.2020) the building ‘retains much wooden machinery: windshaft, brakewheel, wallower, upright shaft, crown wheel, great spur wheel, stones and drive to stones, machine drive and flour machine; in other words is complete. Unusual type of winding gear. Ceased work early C20, repairs carried out 1951 and 1974’.
These final three buildings are located on the Lower Tysoe map, and their “Return” links will take you back to that section:
46. Westcote Manor, Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1035526 (1988)
This house with 17th century origins an extended in the 20th century, is built with roughly squared ironstone laid in courses, with slate roofs and gables coped in stone. The 17th century wing has two storeys and an attic. At its centre is a two-storey gabled porch. Windows on the front elevation have mullions and hood moulds to deflect rainwater. The adjoining 19th/20th century wing attached at an angle to the right closely follows the design of the older wing in height and window design.
47. Edge Hill Farmhouse and attached outbuildings, Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1299382 (1988)
A late 18th century farmhouse with 19th century additions. The L-shaped two-storey house is built in roughly squared ironstone laid in courses. It has a slate roof with stone chimney stacks and coping stones at the gable ends.
48. Sunrising House, Banbury Road, Tysoe. Grade II.
Listing Ref 1186135 (1966)
This landmark house dates from the 17th century but has 18th and 20th century additions. It has a complex plan largely unseen from the road. The facade facing the road has stone mullioned windows with stone sills and lintels and simple projecting hood moulds to deflect rainwater. At the top right is an oeil-de-boeuf (bull’s eye) window, a small elliptical window.
