Burford Grammar School (Main Part Including Lenthall House)
BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL (MAIN PART INCLUDING LENTHALL HOUSE), CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1267149
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Burford Grammar School (Main Part Including Lenthall House)
- Statutory Address:
- BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL (MAIN PART INCLUDING LENTHALL HOUSE), CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1267149
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Burford Grammar School (Main Part Including Lenthall House)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL (MAIN PART INCLUDING LENTHALL HOUSE), CHURCH LANE
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:
- BURFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL (MAIN PART INCLUDING LENTHALL HOUSE), 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 25264 12371
Details
BURFORD AND UPTON CHURCH LANE AND SIGNET (North Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) Burford Grammar School 7/40 (main part including 12.9.55 Lenthall House).
GV II*
Grammar school. Rebuilt c.1570's for Simon Wysdom, altered and extended mid-C19. Coursed and squared rubble, low pitched slate roof, coped verges, ashlar chimney to right. 2 storeys; 1-5-1 bays; rebated hollow chamfered mullion windows of 3 lights, altered ground floor left, lower storey levels to right hand bay, string over 1st floor, 6 courses below eaves. Tudor arch door within relieving arch to left of right hand bay, ogee mouldings, plain spandrels. Tablet inserted over ground floor right- hand window: "All law and praise be to God:/A. R. Reginde. Elizabeth.xxi Symon. Wysdom, Alderman of Burford. Re-edified/. and.buylded.this.howse. A.D'O 1579:" Over the ground floor are 3 tie rods whose ends form the letters B.G.S. Interior: in lobby of door the former decayed nail-studed door is displayed; in ground floor East room a wide Tudor arch fire-place. The East gable return has single-and 2-light mullion windows and central chimney stack; to right is pointed doorway with light Tudor arching and ogee and hollow mouldings like the door to front, label over. The school extends North and East (Lenthall House), the link block is mid C19 the North-east block is 1870s or 1880s, rough-faced rubble, 2 storeys and attic in mansard plain tile roof; cross-mullion windows with relieving arches over, the gable end to East breaks forward below a corbelled-out attic end gable; stepped chimney to North return. The date tablet was moved here from Simon Wysdom's Almshouses (demolished).
Listing NGR: SP2526412371
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419538
- 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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