SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE

SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, NEW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1052516
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1956
List Entry Name:: SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE
Statutory Address:: SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, NEW ROAD

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Date:: 2002-08-21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1052516
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1956
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-May-1987
List Entry Name:: SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, NEW ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, OLD ROAD
Statutory Address 3:: SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, THE GREEN

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:: SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, NEW ROAD
Statutory Address:: SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, OLD ROAD
Statutory Address:: SCHOOL AND SCHOOLHOUSE, THE GREEN

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Tew
National Grid Reference:: SP 39581 29252

Details

GREAT TEW THE GREEN SP3929 (South side) 10/78 School and Schoolhouse 27/08/56 (Formerly listed as School) GV II

School and schoolhouse. 1852. Coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roofs with limestone ashlar stacks. 2 L-shaped ranges around a small courtyard. To left of front, shorter wing of schoolroom range has a gabled stone porch with arched entrance between 2-light stone-mullioned windows with lattice glazing and labels; left gable has a large canopied bellcote above a 4-light stone mullioned-and-transomed window; 5-window rear wing has 2-light mullioned-and-transomed windows, all with labels, and another 4-light window in the rear gable wall. Shorter wing of schoolhouse range is set back to right of the front, behind later flat-roofed extensions, and returns on right with stone-mullioned windows of 3, 1 and 2 lights below stone-gabled dormers of 2, 1 and 2 lights, all with labels and lattice glazing. Rear gable wall has a 2-light mullioned window above a canted 4-light bay window with stone mullions and crenellated stone roof. Roofs have gable parapets with carved kneelers and clusters of octagonal stacks with moulded caps. Interior not inspected. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.XI, p.225; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.627).

Listing NGR: SP3958129252

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Legacy System number:: 251890
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 627
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 225

Legal

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