The Old School House
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, NORTH ASTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066587
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, NORTH ASTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066587
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, NORTH ASTON ROAD
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 HOUSE, NORTH ASTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 49687 28873
Details
SOMERTON NORTH ASTON ROAD SP42NE (South side) 2/92 The Old School House 26/11/51 (Formerly listed as School) - II
School and schoolhouse, now house. Late C16, possibly incorporating earlier elements, re-modelled and extended mid C18 and late C19/early C20. Limestone rubble with wooden lintels; brick; concrete plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs with stone and brick stacks. 3-unit lobby-entry plan, with later additions, and schoolroom wing to rear. 2 storeys plus attic. 3-window front has casements of 2, 3 and 3 lights to both floors, and has the entrance between bays 2 and 3; there are several indications of early alteration including a blocked doorway in bay one. Both gables have brick stacks, and the ridge stack in line with the entrance has 2 rebuilt diagonal brick shafts on a rubble base. Schoolroom wing returns from right end and has mostly large C19 stone-mullioned windows, but retains part of an ovolo-moulded frame in a small window to a former first floor. Shallow-pitched slate roof has a central ventilator with a weathervane. A lower C19 wing projecting to the right has a wooden bellcote. A C19/early C20 range, partly infilling the angle, is in brick over a rubble ground floor. Interior: Schoolroom has a 7-light wooden ovolo-moulded mullioned-and-transomed window, now internal. House range contains a large open fireplace with a stop-chamfered cambered bressumer, and has some stop-chamfered spine and lateral beans; C18 display cupboard with serpentine shelves; winder stair; C18 roof with queen-post trusses. The school was founded in 1580 by Thomas Fermor and may have incorporated parts of the castle chapel, reputed to have been on the site. (VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p290; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p768)
Listing NGR: SP4968728873
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422375
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 290
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 768
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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