The Old School House
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272034
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
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- Date:
- 1999-08-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/00903/04
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272034
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
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:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bix and Assendon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU7458184678
Details
SU78SW
1209/0/10018
BIX AND ASSENDON
LOWER ASSENDON
The Old School House
II
Parish school, converted into house. c1840-50; altered and extended in c1880s. Flint rubble with red brick dressings. Clay plain tile roof with coped gable ends with small stone fleur-de-lys finials. Brick lateral stack at rear within outshut. PLAN: original rectangular-plan school with entrance porch on right of south front; Tudor Gothic style. In c1880s it was converted into a house, a 1-room plan wing and outshut were built at the rear and the original school room was subdivided and ceiled to form one large and another smaller room. EXTERIOR: single storey. Asymmetrical south front; two 2-light lattice-pane casements in chamfered brick openings with hoodmoulds; large gabled porch on right with chamfered pointed arch doorway with hoodmould and plank door. The west gable-end has panel with shield. At the rear a brick outshut on left and a rendered gable-ended wing on right. INTERIOR: school room walls now lined and roof ceiled in matchboarding; matchboard partition to smaller room at west end; main room has lateral fireplace at rear with range. Room in rear wing has small cast-iron chimneypiece. Plank doors.
Listing NGR: SU7458184678
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468808
- 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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