| The Manor House
was the farmhouse of a small Lincoln College estate; it probably came to
be called the Manor House when its occupant Thomas Nowell, already the Lincoln
tenant, also leased the whole Iffley manor from the Donnington Hospital
(see 16) in 1789. The Nowell family held the manor as tenants until 1843;
they had left the "manor house" by 1810 but the name stuck. The
building had been greatly improved during the 17th century and was further
embellished in the 19th. James Boswell and Samuel Johnson visited it in
Thomas Nowell's time. (See Links, Literary) The house still has extensive
gardens and yards from its farming and malting past.The south wing burnt
down in 1810, and was rebuilt as a separate house; this is now called Rosedale.
The college sold both houses in 1954. |
