King Alfred's School
KING ALFRED'S SCHOOL, PORTWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368488
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- King Alfred's School
- Statutory Address:
- KING ALFRED'S SCHOOL, PORTWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368488
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- King Alfred's School
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING ALFRED'S SCHOOL, PORTWAY
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:
- KING ALFRED'S SCHOOL, PORTWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wantage
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 39627 87676
Details
WANTA6E PORTWAY 5U3987 (North side) 7/149 King Alfred's School 22/04/50 (Formerly listed as King Alfred Grammar School, central block)
GV II
School. 1849-50 by J.B. Clacy, and 1872-3 by William Butterfield, with later additions. Coursed limestone rubble, ashlar dressings; stone slate roof; stone stack. Complex plan. Gothic Revival style. Central block of 2 storey, 5-window range. 2-storey central gabled porch with offset angle buttresses; 2-light Geometrical style window over double-chamfered doorways with plank doors and fittings. 2-light mullioned ground-floor windows; pointed lancets to gabled half-dormers above. Moulded kneelers and stepped coping stones to all gable walls. Gabled roof; rear lateral stack. Similar one-storey, one-bay range to left of front has pentice attached to chapel in similar style and with 2-light late C13 style windows in side walls; west wall has gabled bellcote over 3-light late C13 style window. Asymmetrical schoolmaster's house attached to right of front is in similar style with stone ridge stack and 2-light transomed windows with square and pointed heads: similar later C19 extension to right of darker limestone and with old tile roof. One storey and attic, 4-window range to rear by William Butterfield, 1872-3, of English bond brick with gabled old tile roof, brick ridge stack and offset lateral stack; 2-light flanked by 3-light chamfered stone-mullioned sash windows with chamfered brick jambs and 2-light casements with overlights to hipped dormers. Interior: Front block has much restored Norman doorway from the "Latin School" in the churchyard. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.254; Paul Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971, pp.396, 435; VCH: Berkshire, Vol IV, p.320).
Listing NGR: SU3962787676
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251248
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 254
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 320
Thompson, P, William Butterfield Victorian Architect, (1971), 396 435
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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