Rycotewood College
RYCOTEWOOD COLLEGE, PRIEST END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368779
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rycotewood College
- Statutory Address:
- RYCOTEWOOD COLLEGE, PRIEST END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368779
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rycotewood College
- Statutory Address 1:
- RYCOTEWOOD COLLEGE, PRIEST END
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:
- RYCOTEWOOD COLLEGE, PRIEST END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thame
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 70131 06225
Details
THAME PRIEST END SP7006SW (North-west side) 8/147 Rycotewood College
GV II
Workhouse, now college. c.1835, by George Wilkinson, with late C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Red brick; slate roof; brick stacks to rear. Complex plan of 3-storey central octagonal pavilion with 2-storey, 6-window wings to left and right, and 3-storey, 7-window cross-wings to ends. C20 doors to most doorways. 12-pane unhorned sashes with cambered brick heads to window openings of central octagonal pavilion. Basket-arched openings to ground floor of wings having C20 wooden casements. 2-light wood casements to first floor of wings and to all window openings of cross-wings. Hipped roofs, that to central octagon has lead ridges and copper weathervane to apex. Interior: cast iron columns support ceiling of ground floor central octagon. C20 alterations to interior. C20 additions to rear and late C19 single-storey cross-wing to centre. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1979, p.809).
Listing NGR: SP7013106225
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248578
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 809
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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