Great Hall and Wall of Oundle School
GREAT HALL AND WALL OF OUNDLE SCHOOL, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293673
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Great Hall and Wall of Oundle School
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT HALL AND WALL OF OUNDLE SCHOOL, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293673
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Great Hall and Wall of Oundle School
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT HALL AND WALL OF OUNDLE SCHOOL, NEW STREET
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:
- GREAT HALL AND WALL OF OUNDLE SCHOOL, NEW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oundle
- National Grid Reference:
- TL0404888244
Details
TL 0488 1/137
1483
NEW STREET
(West Side)
Great Hall and wall of
Oundle School
GV
II
Dated 1907, by Arthur Blomfield.
Perpendicular style. 2 storeys in coursed stone with stone dressings and stone
slate roof. 2 wings of 2 storeys with 2 mullion and transom windows of 6 lights
beneath 2 gables with finials. Rectangular dripmoulds continue as strings. String
continues cills. String over 4 windows of 4 lights with mullions and transoms
arranged in pairs on the ground floor. Plinth. Angle buttresses at quoins. Porches
of 2 storeys canted in angle, with crenellated parapet. 1 window of 4 lights over
4-centred doorway with carved spandrels and 3 light rectangular fanlight. Side
lights. Plinth Taller centre section breaks forward with moulded gable end with
elaborate double chimney stack. 2 turrets at angles, with crenellated parapets
and gargoyle waterspouts to cornice. Top is lantern with single lancet lights
to each face and irregular arrow slits. Central figure of Laxton in niche under
carved canopy and central large perpendicular window under ornamented dripmould.
Strings at cill and between storeys. Blank carved arcades below and basement lights.
Foundation plaque. Includes low wall of stone with 2 sets of gate piers with iron
finials without lamps. Iron gates. Similar in detail to blain Building (The Cloisters).
All the listed buildings in New Street form a group.
Listing NGR: TL0404888244
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 231738
- 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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