Sibford School
SIBFORD SCHOOL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300140
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Sibford School
- Statutory Address:
- SIBFORD SCHOOL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300140
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sibford School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIBFORD SCHOOL, MAIN 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:
- SIBFORD SCHOOL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sibford Ferris
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 35690 37376
Details
SIBFORD FERRIS MAIN STREET SP3436-3536 (North side) 16/143 Sibford School 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as School of the Society of Friends) GV II Manor house now school. C17 remodelled C18. Extended in C19. Rear: regular coursed ironstone rubble. Front: ironstone ashlar. Hipped slate roof. Rendered brick ridge stacks. 3-unit plan extended by the addition of a C19 unit to right and front range forming a double-depth plan. 3 storeys plus attic. 5-window range with further C19 two-window addition on right. Entrance off-centre to left has a tall 6-panelled door in a moulded stone architrave with keyblock head. Flat hood on brackets. 2 semi-circular stone steps and a bootscraper. Entrance is flanked by tall C18 sashes with architrave surrounds and keyblock heads. First floor has 5 similar windows. 1:3:1 bays. Second floor has 4 renewed 2-light casements with keystoned stone lintels. Single pedimented roof dormer. Stone parapet. 2-storeys 2-window C19 extension on right. 2 sash windows with keyblock heads on both ground and first floors. Flat bands to first and second floors. Glazing bars throughout. Rear has a 3-light stone mullioned window with hood mould and label stop. Interior: hall has a substantial stop-chamfered beam, C19 floor tiles and mostly C18 open well staircase. Room to left has C18 panelling. Music room to right has C18 alcove. First floor room on left has dado, windows with seats, shutters and panelled reveals. The Society of Friends established a school here in 1842. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p766; VCH: 0xfordshire: Vol X, p229)
Listing NGR: SP3569037376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244699
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 229
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 766
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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