Henry Box School
HENRY BOX SCHOOL, CHURCH GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1212271
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Henry Box School
- Statutory Address:
- HENRY BOX SCHOOL, CHURCH GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1212271
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Henry Box School
- Statutory Address 1:
- HENRY BOX SCHOOL, CHURCH GREEN
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:
- HENRY BOX SCHOOL, CHURCH GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witney
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 35428 09308
Details
WITNEY CHURCH GREEN SP3509S (West side) 11/36 Henry Box School 14/05/52 (Formerly listed as The Grammar School with gateposts and wall leading to the School)
GV II*
School. Datestone "Henri Box, A.D.l660". Roughcast over limestone rabble, with chamfered plinth and ashlar quoins and dressings; hipped Welsh slate roof; ashlar ridge stacks, with 3 diamond-set flues to each stack of centre range and 6 similar stacks to side-wing stacks. U-plan with front wings. 2 storeys and attic; symmetrical 6-window range of 1:4:1 fenestration. 2-light stone-mullioned cellar windows. Central panelled double-leaf doors set in chamfered stone architrave. String course continued as hood moulds over 4 chamfered stone-mullioned and transomed cross windows, each with lunette in head. String course continued to 2-storey gable ends of side wings, each with cross windows. Gabled roof dormer with leaded casements. Inner side of side wings have 2-panelled doors set in chamfered architraves, chamfered transomed lights, and a cross window to right. Outer side walls have similar cross windows. Rear: 3 cross windows, chamfered stone light, C20 door set in stop-chamfered stone architrave and 4 cross windows each with lunette in head. Interior; central schoolroom; coved cornice; end walls each have chamfered stone fireplace and C18 semi-circular arched door with fluted pilasters and moulded capitals: left end wall has fluted pilasters to gallery with mid C17 moulded handrail to balustrade. Side wings have stop-chamfered beans, quarter -turn stairs with turned balusters at attic level and C17 ribbed doors in attic. Collar-truss roof with butt purlins. (Mary A. Fleming, Witney Grammar School, l660-l960, 1960); Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.846; J.A. Gotch, The English Home, 1918, fig.70; National Monuments Record).
Listing NGR: SP3542809308
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252630
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fleming, M A, Witney Grammar School 1660-1960, (1960)
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 846
Gotch, J A, The English Home, (1918)
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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