The Old School
THE OLD SCHOOL, NORTH SIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065958
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, NORTH SIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065958
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, NORTH SIDE
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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL, NORTH SIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Aston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 47512 26002
Details
STEEPLE ASTON NORTH SIDE SP4726, SP4725 (North side) 8/114, 9/114 The Old School 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Radcliff's School) GV II
School, now house. Founded 1640, but probably c.1688 for Richard Duckworth; enlarged 1877. Mixed marlstone and limestone rubble, formerly roughcast, with limestone-ashlar dressings; Welsh-slate and Stonesfield-slate roofs with stone-and-brick stacks. Single range with added parallel range and stair wing. One storey plus attic and single storey. Symmetrical 3-window front of main range has large 2-light windows with moulded architraves and rectangular mullions, set below a moulded string which returns around the gable walls and breaks forward slightly over each window; a central stone plaque with a moulded surround records the foundation and restoration. Welsh-slated roof has 3 hipped dormers and stone-based gable stacks. Left gable wall has a deeper window with transoms, and there is a keyed oval window within a square surround in the gable; wall returns to the gable wall of the single-storey stone-slated rear range, which has a similar moulded string and a matching 3-light transomed window. Right gable wall of main range has a further 2-light transomed window plus a 3-light C19 stone-mullioned window in the gable. C19 stair wing, projecting from the right end, has single-light windows with moulded stone architraves, a plain-architraved entrance, and has a stone bellcote on the gable; a parapetted section to rear includes a re-set C17 doorway with a Latin inscription on the lintel. Interior: intersecting chamfered beams to the main roan. The school was founded by Dr. Samuel Radcliffe, principal of Brasenose College, and was restored (or probably rebuilt) by Richard Duckworth, rector. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p43; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p787)
Listing NGR: SP4751226002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422544
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 43
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 787
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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