The School House
THE SCHOOL HOUSE, HOPCRAFT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365844
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The School House
- Statutory Address:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE, HOPCRAFT LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07088/31
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365844
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The School House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE, HOPCRAFT 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:
- THE SCHOOL HOUSE, HOPCRAFT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Deddington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 46879 31530
Details
SP4631 DEDDINGTON HOPCRAFT LANE (East side) 8/178 The School House 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Chapmans Way, Council Street)
GV II Farmhouse, now workshop and offices. 1655 and 1735 on datestones. Coursed squared marlstone with some ashlar dressings and some wooden lintels: Welsh-slate roof with ashlar-and-brick stacks. 2-unit plan enlarged to 4 units. 2 storeys plus attic and 2 storeys. Earlier left half of range, with a steeper roof, has three 3-light wood-mullioned windows at first floor, but at ground floor has 3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows, with labels, flanking an altered doorway which retains an ovolo-moulded lintel with jewelled stops; immediately left of doorway is a small blocked window. Right half of front has 3 renewed 3-light casements at ground floor, 2 with stop-chamfered lintels, but first floor has a re-used 3-light C17 wood-mullioned window enlarged to 7 lights, probably in 1735. All first-floor windows have old lattice glazing. Left end wall has a 3-light stone-mullioned window, a 3-light wood-mullioned window, and has an old 2-light casement in the gable; parapet has moulded copings and projecting scrolled kneelers. Rear has further ancient leaded casements, and has a gabled stair projection. Principal datestone is inscribed 1655 and ZS/1735; a second stone has the arms of Stilgoe and the date 1917. Interior: 3 open fireplaces with wooden bressumers and continuous chamfers; renewed spiral stair. The large first-floor room in the later range is reputed to have served as a schoolroom. C20 workshop extensions are not of special architectural interest. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p572; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, pp87-8; R, Wood-Jones: Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region: 1963, pp124-7)
Listing NGR: SP4687931530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243903
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 87-8
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 572
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 124-7
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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