Kiddington County Primary School and School House
KIDDINGTON COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053096
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kiddington County Primary School and School House
- Statutory Address:
- KIDDINGTON COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053096
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kiddington County Primary School and School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KIDDINGTON COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL
- Statutory Address 2:
- SCHOOL HOUSE
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:
- KIDDINGTON COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL
- Statutory Address:
- SCHOOL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kiddington with Asterleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 41487 22787
Details
KIDDINGTON WITH ASTERLEIGH KIDDINGTON SP4122 10/76 Kiddington County Primary School and School House
GV II
School and schoolhouse. Dated 1856, for Henry L. Gaskell. Minor late C20 alterations and additions to rear. Squared and coursed limestone with tooled ashlar dressings. Slate roof, half-hipped to right. Irregular plan. In a Tudor Gothic style. One storey school to right with schoolhouse to left of one storey and attic and 2 storeys. Chamfered plinth, and moulded wooden barge boards throughout with shaped ends and pendant finials. Schoolhouse: 2 bays. Buttresses to right with chamfered offsets. Two gabled semi dormers with chamfered-coped parapets and chamfered octagonal panels on carved scrolls, inscribed HLG (left-hand) and 1856 (right-hand); 3-light chamfered mullioned and transomed stone windows with small-paned casements (right-hand window cut-down in C20 and French casements inserted). Right-hand return front: porch with hipped stone roof, diagonal buttresses with chamfered tops and central chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with half-glazed 2-panelled door. Chamfered rectangular window in left-hand return. External bellcote above with chamfered offsets chamfered-arched bell opening with bell, and gabled top with coping and tall wooden finial. Rear: pair of gabled semi-dormers with 3-light chamfered mullioned and transomed stone windows, and central truncated external lateral stone stack with chamfered offsets. Schoolhouse: one storey and attic to left with projecting 2-storey wing to right. External lateral stone stack to right with chamfered offsets and 2 octagonal stone shafts with moulded caps and bases. 1:1 windows; 2- and 3-light chamfered mullioned stone windows with small-paned wooden casements. Gabled semi dormer to left and ground-floor ashlar canted hipped bay to right of 1:2:1 lights. Carved shield in chamfered recessed rectangular panel in apex of right-hand gable, depicting a hand holding an anchor and with the inscription: "SPES". Chamfered rectangular windows in returns of wing. Entrance in right-hand return front consisting of C19 neo-Tudor boarded door in chamfered Tudor arch with stops. Gabled porch consisting of hollow-chamfered Tudor archway with panelled spandrels and ovolo-moulded outer square surround. Gabled wing to rear. Interiors not inspected. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p669)
Listing NGR: SP4148722787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252517
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 669
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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