The Old School and School House

SCHOOL HOUSE, SUMMERSIDE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1182065
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:
The Old School and School House
Statutory Address:
SCHOOL HOUSE, SUMMERSIDE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1182065
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:
The Old School and School House
Statutory Address 1:
SCHOOL HOUSE, SUMMERSIDE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
THE OLD SCHOOL, SUMMERSIDE ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SCHOOL HOUSE, SUMMERSIDE ROAD
Statutory Address:
THE OLD SCHOOL, SUMMERSIDE ROAD

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:
Buckland
National Grid Reference:
SU 34469 97765

Details

BUCKLAND SUMMERSIDE ROAD SU3497 (South side) 8/81 The Old School and Schoolhouse 06/06/72 GV II

School and schoolhouse. 1856-7, by G.E. Street. Coursed limestone rubble, limestone ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. One storey; 3 bay, 2:1 fenestration with gabled bay to right brought forward. Pointed arch over plank door adjoining right gable; mid C20 lean-to porch. Pierced lunette over three-light stone mullioned and transomed window with cusped heads to right gable; left front has similar window with trefoiled centre light in gabled half-dormer, 3-light mullioned window with cusped heads and two offset buttresses.Gabled roof with decorative ridge tiles, conical ventilator and iron bellcote with pyramidal roof; offset rear lateral stack. Similar 3-light window with cusped heads to left gable wall and similar transomed window set in gabled half dormer to right side wall. Late C19 gabled extension to rear in similar materials has 3-light mullioned and transomed window in gable wall; adjoining mid C20 extension in similar style has artificial stone walling and is built onto rear late C19 lean-to with plain pointed arch to doorway. To rear right is one and a half storey schoolhouse of 1856-7 built in similar style and materials to school with pointed arch over plank door; stack adjoining rear wall of school, gable end stack to rear and offset lateral stack to left. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SU3446997765

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
250910
Legacy System:
LBS

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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