BURFORD PRIMARY SCHOOL TOGETHER WITH FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS

BURFORD PRIMARY SCHOOL TOGETHER WITH FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS, PRIORY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1224756
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: BURFORD PRIMARY SCHOOL TOGETHER WITH FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: BURFORD PRIMARY SCHOOL TOGETHER WITH FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS, PRIORY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1224756
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:: BURFORD PRIMARY SCHOOL TOGETHER WITH FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: BURFORD PRIMARY SCHOOL TOGETHER WITH FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS, PRIORY 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:: BURFORD PRIMARY SCHOOL TOGETHER WITH FORECOURT WALL AND RAILINGS, PRIORY 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:: SP2510412346

Details

BURFORD AND UPTON PRIORY IANE AND SIGNET (North side) SP2512 (Enlargement) Burford Primary School 7/65 together with fore- court wall and railings.

GV II

Primary school and boundary wall and railings. Dated 1877. Coursed and squared rubble, plain tile roof. Vernacular style-see the coped gables with steps (party traceried), the cut and shaped finials, the mullioned windows with transoms and cornices. Single storey. 3 gables to front, the left-hand gable projects by one bay and is wider with corbelled finials, 3-light window, string between gable steps with lozenge date panel. The two right-hand gables break through the eaves and have side pilasters with ball - finials; they flank a broached chimney with diagonal shaft (base only). Base of diagonal-shafted chimney - pair at junction of ridges. Heavy bellcote to east gable with arched opening. Entered from low extension with gable to left over moulded elliptical-head doorway and the 3-light transom window with cornice, corbelled ball-finials, extended by short bay to right. The boundary wall is in rubble and has chamfered coping with wall- buttresses carrying ball-copped dies, short railings with flattened heads between and 3 gateways. Railings link school and wall.

Listing NGR: SP2510412346

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Legacy System number:: 420901
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.