OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL HOUSE

OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL HOUSE, CROUGHTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1040562
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL HOUSE, CROUGHTON ROAD

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Date:: 2001-04-23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1040562
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL HOUSE, CROUGHTON ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL HOUSE, CROUGHTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Aynho
National Grid Reference:: SP5151533236

Details

SP5133 12/16 11/09/53

AYNHO CROUGHTON ROAD

Old Grammar School House

GV II

Grammar School, now house, 1671 on sundial. Squared uncoursed limestone with ironstone quoins. Stone tile roof with coped gables and kneelers. Stone chimneys. L-plan. 2 storeys, attic and cellar, 7 bays. Doorway in second bay from left with stone 4-centred arch and square hood with lozenge-shaped stops. 6-panel door. Similar doorway (blocked) in third bay from right. C20 three- light stone mullioned and transomed windows in left bay ground and first floor. Other windows are 2-light stone mullions, some renewed, with a continuous hood on both floors. Stone sundial third bay from right on first floor. C17 gabled wing at rear is of one bay, and 2 storeys with 2-light stone mullioned windows and square hoods. Interior: Moulded beams and stone square-headed doorways. C17 stone hall fireplace with 4-centred arch and moulded entablature.

Listing NGR: SP5151533236

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Legacy System number:: 233915
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.