LIBRARY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH WEST OF KING ALFRED'S SCHOOL

LIBRARY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH WEST OF KING ALFRED'S SCHOOL, PORTWAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1048522
Date first listed:: 06-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: LIBRARY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH WEST OF KING ALFRED'S SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: LIBRARY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH WEST OF KING ALFRED'S SCHOOL, PORTWAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1048522
Date first listed:: 06-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: LIBRARY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH WEST OF KING ALFRED'S SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: LIBRARY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH WEST OF KING ALFRED'S SCHOOL, PORTWAY

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

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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:: LIBRARY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES NORTH WEST OF KING ALFRED'S SCHOOL, PORTWAY

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
Parish:: Wantage
National Grid Reference:: SU 39606 87702

Details

WANTAGE PORTWAY SU3987 (North side) 7/150 Library approx. 20m. NW of King Alfred's School

GV II

Library. c.1872, by William Butterfield. English bond brick with flared headers in diaper pattern; limestone ashlar dressings; old tile roof; brick stacks. One storey; 4-window range. Hipped central porch has wood pointed chamfered arch to lobby with segmental headed arch over plank double doors with decorative hinges. Porch flanked by outshuts with 2-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows with chamfered brick jambs, and offset buttresses. Hipped half-dormers have 2-light transomed windows with cusped heads. Flush ashlar band beneath dog-tooth eaves. Gabled roof with ashlar coping, moulded kneelers and decorative ridge tiles; offset rear lateral stack. Side walls have segmental arches over 2- and 3-light windows with cusped heads. 2 similar half dormers flank rear stack. Interior has arch-braced collar-truss roof.

Listing NGR: SU3960687702

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Legacy System number:: 251249
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.