The Old School House and Attached School and Walls
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCHOOL AND WALLS, ABINGDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368534
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House and Attached School and Walls
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCHOOL AND WALLS, ABINGDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368534
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School House and Attached School and Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCHOOL AND WALLS, ABINGDON ROAD
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 OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCHOOL AND WALLS, ABINGDON ROAD
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:
- Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 40830 98092
Details
KINGSTON BAGPUIZE WITH SOUTHMOOR ABINGDON ROAD SU4098 (West side) Kingston Bagpuize 11/93 The Old School House and attached school and walls
GV II
Schoolhouse, now house. Mid C18; remodelled and school added c.1840. Dressed and coursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; symmetrical brick end stacks. Central-staircase plan. 2 storeys and attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Segmental brick arch with keystone over late C19 plank door. Re-used C17 two-light stone-mullioned chamfered windows on ground floor: first-floor gauged brick flat arches over mid C19 two-light windows. Flushed brick storey band and dentilled brick eaves. gabled roof dormers with C19 two-light casements. Interior: C19 staircase and fireplace, cased beams. Subsidiary features: school to rear left of similar materials built c.1840: one storey. 5-window range: segmental brick arches over 2 plank doors and 2-light stone-mullioned cavetto-moulded windows. Walls carried from rear of school to front, with iron gate to entrance. History: the C17 windows were probably taken from the Old Manor near Kingston House (q.v.). The school was established by John Blandy in 1736 and accommodated 14 local boys (increased to 20 in 1790) "to be taught the art of navigation and other rules in the mathematics". (Berkshire Record Office, Reading, Report of the Charity Commissioners, 1819-1837, pp.291-3).
Listing NGR: SU4083098092
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249591
- 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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