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Manor Cottages · West Oxfordshire · South East

GL7 3HJ

Manor Cottages, West Oxfordshire

Kelmscott Manor, listed at Grade I, stands about 150 m from GL7 3HJ.

WEST OXFORDSHIRE, 30 October 2026. Compiled from 8 public registers. Last revised 30 October 2026.

Lane past Manor farm
Lane past Manor farm. Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The postcode GL7 3HJ lies in the parish of Kelmscott, in the county of Oxfordshire, in the South East region of England.1 Manor Cottages, a Grade II* listed cottage in Kelmscott, stands within 25 m of the postcode.2 Kelmscott is a village and civil parish on the River Thames, about 2 miles (3 km) east of Lechlade in neighbouring Gloucestershire.3

Kelmscott Manor, a limestone manor house listed Grade I, lies 160 m south-east of the postcode.4

Written in part from the Wikipedia articles cited; this text is adapted from them and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable residents

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Landmarks and architecture

Kelmscott Manor, a Grade I listed building, lies 130 m south-east of GL7 3HJ.5 It is a limestone manor house that dates from around 1570, with a late 17th-century wing, and was the country home of William Morris from 1871 until his death in 1896.4 The Church of St George, a Grade II* listed building first listed on 12 September 1955, lies 380 m north of GL7 3HJ.6

Memorial Cottages, with attached outbuildings and garden walls, is Grade II* and lies 40 m north-west of GL7 3HJ.7 Bradshaws Farmhouse, with an attached garden wall, is a Grade II* listed building lying 550 m north-west of GL7 3HJ.8 Numbers 1 and 4 Manor Cottages, a Grade II* listed building, lie within 25 m of GL7 3HJ.9

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Listed buildings within 600 m

Name in the registerGradeDistance
KELMSCOTT MANOR List entry 1199373 I 134 m
1 AND 4, MANOR COTTAGES List entry 1199315 II* 5 m
MEMORIAL COTTAGES WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND GARDEN WALLS List entry 1367768 II* 37 m
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE List entry 1199126 II* 384 m
BRADSHAWS FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARDEN WALL List entry 1199066 II* 554 m
STONE SLAB FENCE ENCLOSING AND DIVIDING GARDENS OF NUMBERS 1 AND 4 MANOR COTTAGES CONTINUING TO SOUTH EAST ALONG ROAD TO GARDEN COTTAGE List entry 1053380 II 29 m
2 AND 3, MANOR COTTAGES List entry 1053376 II 47 m
BARN AND COWHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH WEST OF MANOR FARMHOUSE List entry 1199296 II 58 m
BARN AND COWHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 75 METRES SOUTH EAST OF MANOR FARMHOUSE List entry 1053379 II 79 m
GARDEN COTTAGE List entry 1199361 II 92 m
BARN APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES EAST OF LOWER HOUSE List entry 1053375 II 108 m
BARN APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES NORTH EAST OF KELMSCOTT MANOR List entry 1199401 II 108 m
BARN APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH WEST OF GARDEN COTTAGE List entry 1367769 II 108 m
MANOR FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIER List entry 1053377 II 116 m
LOWER HOUSE List entry 1053374 II 122 m
DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 12 METRES NORTH WEST OF MANOR FARMHOUSE List entry 1283438 II 134 m
PLOUGH COTTAGE THE PLOUGH INN List entry 1053373 II 136 m
CROSS BASE AND STEPS APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES NORTH OF THE PLOUGH List entry 1053372 II 138 m
GARDEN WALL ATTACHED SUMMERHOUSE AND PRIVY AT KELMSCOTT MANOR List entry 1053381 II 139 m
BARN APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES NORTH OF MANOR FARMHOUSE List entry 1053378 II 148 m
DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES SOUTH OF KELMSCOTT MANOR List entry 1053382 II 158 m
JOBS CLOSE List entry 1367767 II 167 m
BARN APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF KELMSCOTT MANOR List entry 1053408 II 171 m
BARN APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH OF KELMSCOTT MANOR List entry 1367770 II 172 m
VILLAGE HALL List entry 1367766 II 238 m
MORRIS MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF CHANCEL OF CHURCH OF ST GEORGE List entry 1053371 II 360 m
CHURCH COTTAGE List entry 1367747 II 371 m
FORD MEMORIAL,C18 CHEST TOMB AND TWO C17 MONUMENTS APPROXIMATELY 2-5 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH TRANSEPT OF CHURCH OF ST GEORGE List entry 1053411 II 372 m
HOME LEA List entry 1053410 II 398 m
HOME FARMHOUSE List entry 1199119 II 478 m
BARN APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES SOUTH WEST OF BRADSHAWS FARMHOUSE List entry 1367746 II 556 m
BARN APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH WEST OF BRADSHAWS FARMHOUSE List entry 1053409 II 576 m

Source: Historic England, National Heritage List for England. Names as the register gives them.

Further reading on Wikipedia

Article titles and links from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Landmarks on Wikidata

Data from Wikidata (CC0).

House style

Listed buildings near GL7 3HJ include 1 and 4 Manor Cottages, listed at Grade II*, and 2 and 3 Manor Cottages, listed at Grade II.910 A stone slab fence, listed at Grade II, encloses and divides the gardens of 1 and 4 Manor Cottages, 30 m east of GL7 3HJ.11 Memorial Cottages, with attached outbuildings and garden walls, are listed at Grade II*, 40 m north-west of GL7 3HJ.7

A barn and cowhouse, listed at Grade II, lies approximately 50 metres south west of Manor Farmhouse, 60 m north of GL7 3HJ.12

Inferred from Land Registry property types and listed-building descriptions. No register records the style of unlisted houses.

Property types in recorded sales
  • Detached3
  • Semi-detached2

Then and now

Kelmscott Manor, a limestone manor house about 160 m south-east of GL7 3HJ, dates from around 1570, with a late 17th-century wing.4 The house was originally called Lower House, but became Kelmscott Manor when James Turner bought 53½ acres of manorial land with the lordship in 1864.4 William Morris made the house his country home from 1871 until his death in 1896.4

May Morris, born 25 March 1862, died at Kelmscott Manor on 17 October 1938, according to Wikidata.13 Since 2001 Kelmscott has absorbed Little Faringdon, formerly a separate civil parish, and the 2011 Census recorded the merged parish's population as 198.3

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Questions about GL7 3HJ

Each answer is computed from the public registers, and its footnotes link to the source.

  1. What is the oldest dated picture near GL7 3HJ on Wikimedia Commons?

    Kelmscott Manor, home of William Morris, dated 30 November 1899 on Commons, by 1948 R Needham (CC BY-SA 4.0), about 10 m away.14

    It is the oldest dated file among the 50 nearest.

    Did you know? The oldest dated picture near GL7 3HJ on Wikimedia Commons is from 1899.

  2. What is the most paid for a home in GL7 3HJ?

    £840,000, paid for Coles Barn, a detached freehold home, on 17 December 2004.15

    That was 2.5 times the West Oxfordshire average for a detached home that month (£334,894, UK House Price Index).16

    Did you know? A detached home in GL7 3HJ sold for £840,000 in 2004.

  3. Which is the highest-graded listed building near GL7 3HJ?

    Kelmscott Manor, Grade I, about 130 m away (list entry 1199373).5

    2.5% of England's 379,683 list entries are Grade I.17

    Did you know? Kelmscott Manor, listed at Grade I, stands about 130 m from GL7 3HJ.

  4. Which well-known person died near GL7 3HJ?

    May Morris (1862 to 1938) died at Kelmscott Manor, about 160 m away, according to Wikidata.13

    Did you know? May Morris died at Kelmscott Manor, near GL7 3HJ.

  5. What is the nearest landmark to GL7 3HJ?

    The nearest place with its own Wikipedia article is Kelmscott Manor, about 160 m away.4

    Did you know? Kelmscott Manor is about 160 m from GL7 3HJ.

Map

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Map: OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Every point on the map is also listed in the tables on this page.

Prices

5 home sales have been recorded in GL7 3HJ since 1999. The latest was a semi-detached property sold for £610,000 on 19 June 2007.

DateNo.TypePrice
19 Jun 2007 3 Semi-detached £610,000
20 Dec 2006 2 Semi-detached £460,000
17 Dec 2004 COLES BARN Detached £840,000
31 Jul 2002 COLES BARN Detached £650,000
11 Jun 1999 COLES BARN Detached £499,500

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Addresses as the register gives them; it names no buyer or seller, and neither do we. Search the register.

Schools

The Department for Education lists no open schools within 1 km.

Recorded crime

In August 2026, 0 crimes and incidents were recorded by the police within about a mile of GL7 3HJ.

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CategoryRecords

Locations are approximate: police.uk places each record at a nearby anonymous point, so these figures describe the streets around this place as a whole.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: data.police.uk.

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