Schoolhouse and Attached Infants School
SCHOOLHOUSE AND ATTACHED INFANTS SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047492
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Schoolhouse and Attached Infants School
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOLHOUSE AND ATTACHED INFANTS SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047492
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Schoolhouse and Attached Infants School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCHOOLHOUSE AND ATTACHED INFANTS SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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.
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:
- SCHOOLHOUSE AND ATTACHED INFANTS SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Milton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 62950 02937
Details
GREAT MILTON HIGH STREET SP60SW (West side) 5/124 Schoolhouse and attached 18/07/63 Infants School (Formerly listed as Great Milton School)
- II*
Schoolhouse and attached school. Early C17 and 1854. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; old plain tile roof with brick stacks. H-plan. 2 storeys plus attics. C17 range to left projects to front and rear with stone gable parapets, ornamental kneelers and apex finials. Front gable has stone-mullioned windows of 4, 3 and 2 lights, all with concave chamfers and labels. Entrance in return to right has a studded door with strap hinges in a 4-centre arched doorway with recessed spandrels and label. 2-light mullioned window above has diamond-leaded lights. Externally-C19 centre range of one bay has 3-light mullioned windows and a 2-light gabled roof dormer. School room range to right has matching front gable (slightly lower) with a large stone mullioned and transomed window. Arched doorway in left return facing schoolhouse door. Very large stack to left of centre with 5 tall shafts set alternately straight and diagonal. Further single-shaft stack to right of centre with tiled bellcote. Left gable wall has further C17 mullioned windows to 3 floors with single-storey range projecting to rear. Interior: Several 4-centre arched stone fireplaces; beams with elaborate double-ovolo mouldings, some intersecting; dogleg stair to attics with winders; timber-framed partitions; butt-purlin roof. Inscription on schoolroom wing "HILTON/NATIONAL/SCHOOL/1854". (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VII, p. 118; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.622).
Listing NGR: SP6292302945
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246890
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 118
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 622
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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