Burford Grammar School Gymnasium

BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL GYMNASIUM, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1223866
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1955
List Entry Name:
Burford Grammar School Gymnasium
Statutory Address:
BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL GYMNASIUM, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1223866
Date first listed:
12-Sept-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
01-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:
Burford Grammar School Gymnasium
Statutory Address 1:
BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL GYMNASIUM, HIGH STREET

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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:
BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL GYMNASIUM, HIGH STREET

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 25193 12332

Details

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (East Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) Burford Grammar School 7/60 Gymnasium (Previously 12.9.55 listed as "House (Boys' School Gymnasium) on SW corner of Church Lane").

II

House, now used as a school gymnasium. C16, altered; C17 alterations; late C19 restoration; mid-C20 adaptation. Rubble with Cotswold stone roof, coped verges, rubble end chimneys. 2 storeys and attic; 4 hipped dormers, 4 windows on 1st floor, 3-light mullion windows with drips; 2 outer windows on ground floor are 4-light mullion windows with stilted drips. Blocked doorway to left of centre with moulded surround and vestigial drips; formerly a Tudor arched doorway with traceried spandrels, some of which survives. L-plan late C19 wing to rear.

Listing NGR: SP2519312332

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Legacy System number:
419738
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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