Racquets Court
RACQUETS COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182397
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Racquets Court
- Statutory Address:
- RACQUETS COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182397
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Racquets Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- RACQUETS COURT
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:
- RACQUETS COURT
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:
- Radley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 51929 99614
Details
RADLEY ST. PETER'S COLLEGE SU59NW 9/107 Racquets' Court GV II Racquets' Court. c.1885. English bond brick; low-pitched hipped Welsh slate roof with glass lantern. One storey; 5-bay range. Gabled porch in end wall: round window above pointed-arched doorway set in segmental-arched surround with imposts, and flanked by segmental-arched windows. Side walls: sunk panel in each bay has pierced stone ventilation holes above and below blind lancets with thin stone imposts. Interior: staircase to viewing gallery. It cost £964 to build. Racquets was first played in the Fleet prison c.1816 and was played in the army and public schools from the mid C19: 12 courts, dating from the 1860's, survive in public schools. (T.D. Raikes, Fifty Years of St. Peter's College, 1897, pp,161-2).
Listing NGR: SU5192999614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249783
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Raikes, T D, Fifty Years of St Peters College, (1897), 161-2
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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