Rawlings House and Attached Wall
RAWLINGS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046372
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Rawlings House and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address:
- RAWLINGS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046372
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rawlings House and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAWLINGS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, THE GREEN
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- RAWLINGS HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Adderbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 47430 35591
Details
SP4735 ADDERBURY THE GREEN (South side) Adderbury East 7/117 Rawlins House and attached 08/12/55 Wall (Formerly listed as Grammar School)
GV II School and master's house, now house. 1589 for Reverend Christopher Rawlins, extended and probably restored 1847. Coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings; Stonesffield-slate roof with ashlar and brick stacks. 2-unit plan plus extended schoolroom. 2 storeys plus attic. 3 bays to right of front form the house, and have a central doorway with a chamfered stone surround flanked by windows of 4 and 3 lights, plus windows of 3, 2 and 3 lights at first floor; all windows have hollow-chamfered stone mullions, labels and leaded glazing. Schoolroom section has a very tall 4-light stone-mullioned window plus a further chamfered stone doorway; added bay to left has a matching window, as has the gable wall, and continues the chamfered plinth. Right gable wall has aligned mullioned windows of 4, 3 and 2 lights. Steep-pitched roof has gable parapets and one hipped 2-light leaded roof dormer; 2 large lateral stacks to rear and a small stack on the left gable. Single-storey subsidiary range, extending from the junction of builds in an L shape, includes a stone-mullioned window with 2 arched lights and a 3-light mullioned window which may have been re-used. Lintel above the principal door records the foundation in 1589 as does a later inscription on the gable wall. Interior: wide Tudor-arched chamfered stone fireplace; large inglenook fireplace with chamfered bressumer; stop-chamfered Cross beams and inner lintels; stop-chamfered tie beams, in the double-height t schoolroom section with C19 arched braces rising from moulded corbels. Stone wall, approximately 2.3 metres high with a 3-course triangular coping, extends approximately 10 metres eastwards from right gable wall and contains a Tudor-arched chamfered stone doorway. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp415-416; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p11)
Listing NGR: SP4743035591
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243840
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 11
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 415-6
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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