Middle Barton County Primary School
29, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367973
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Barton County Primary School
- Statutory Address:
- 29, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367973
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Barton County Primary School
- Statutory Address 1:
- 29, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- MIDDLE BARTON COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, 27, 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:
- 29, CHURCH LANE
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE BARTON COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, 27, 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:
- Steeple Barton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP4399125519
Details
STEEPLE BARTON CHURCH LANE
SP42NW (North side)
Middle Barton
1/272 Nos.27 (Middle Barton County
Primary School) and 29
- II
School and schoolhouse. Date 1866 inscribed in blind oculus. Squared and coursed
limestone with bands of dressed ironstone; stone-coped gabled Welsh slate roof
with finials. Gothic-Revival style. One storey; 8-window range with gabled bay
to centre. Front has offset buttress to outer corners and central gabled bay.
Gabled bay has blind lunette above 2-light trefoil-headed windows. Outer bays
have 3-light Caernarvon-arched windows, and trefoiled lights to each outer bay.
Left-end gable has large offset buttresses dividing 2-light Geometrical windows,
and bellcote with pyramidal roof; gabled porch with plank door set in chamfered
pointed arched doorway, to rear left wing of similar materials. C20 one-storey
extension to left. Right-end gable has 2-light Geometrical windows and plank
door set in pointed chamfered surround. Former schoolmaster's house to right, of
similar style and materials: 2-storey, L-shaped plan with front wing and
adjoining timber porch with trefoiled lights. Interior not inspected.
IVCH; Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p75)
Listing NGR: SP4399125519
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252926
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 75
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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