PART OF BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL

PART OF BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 2, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1223721
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1955
List Entry Name:: PART OF BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: PART OF BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 2, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1223721
Date first listed:: 12-Sep-1955
List Entry Name:: PART OF BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: PART OF BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 2, CHURCH LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: PART OF BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 2, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Burford
National Grid Reference:: SP 25216 12336

Details

BURFORD AND UPTON CHURCH LANE AND SIGNET (South Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) No 2 (part of Burford 7/41 Grammar School) 12.9.55

GV II

House; up to 1887 an inn; now staff accommodation for Burford Grammar School. Early-mid C17 appearance (with alterations). Courses rubble, Cotswold stone roof. 2 storeys and attic. Long 2-storey range of 3 windows, with 2 window gabled range to right. Wood mullioned windows, partly restored, main part of ground floor now has C20 casements: wooden lintels on 1st floor and attic, chamfered to fit surrounds; on 1st floor oak ovolo mullion windows to right of main range and to right of gable; the ground floor of this gable has an excellent mid-C17 4:4-light king- mullion window with rebated transom in ovolo-moulded surround, restored ovolo-moulded lintel - part indeed of all-round evidence of repaired wall- face; gable also retains leaded casements to the right hand (oak ovolo again) of the 2 attic windows. Blocked doorway to left, 2 blocked doorways in main block and an elliptical head doorway to right below a relieving arch. 3 ashlar chimneys. Interior: the ground floor west room entered by doubled chamfered doorcase with urn-stops, Tudor fire-place, cross beams and 2 panels of strap-work plaster decoration; circular indent in south wall for former stairs. Brick extensions to rear. William Morris's widow lived here. Shown on OS map as Nos 1-4 with School House (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SP2521612336

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Legacy System number:: 419539
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.