The Old College
THE OLD COLLEGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369111
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- The Old College
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD COLLEGE, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369111
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- The Old College
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD COLLEGE, HIGH STREET
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 COLLEGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dorchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 57826 94294
Details
DORCHESTER HIGH STREET SU5794 (East side) 5/56 The Old College 18/07/63
GV II
College incorporating house, now shop and workshops. Late C18, extended 1878 by Sir G.G. Scott. Brick with flared headers and red dressings; coursed clunch rubble with limestone dressings; old plain-tile roofs with brick stacks. Irregular courtyard plan. 2 storeys plus attics and one storey plus attics. 7-window C18 front range, with stepped plinth and storey band, is in Flemish bond at ground floor and header bond above. The third bay from the right breaks forward slightly with a brick pediment and has an arched doorway inserted into a blocked carriage entry. Ground-floor windows all have C20 bow windows linked in pairs over secondary shop doorways. First floor has 12-pane sashes under segmental arches. Roof has 3 hipped dormers to left, and one to right, of pediment. Lower 6-window range, returning to right, is in stone with brick above the lower storey. 2 doorways have shouldered lintels and some windows have stone mullions and transoms; 3 windows have been altered. 5 of the 6 hipped dormers have been increased in depth. Roof has 2 large stacks with arched panels, one corbelled out from the facade. Further C19 ranges around courtyard have similar dormers. Courtyard has some glazed pointed-segmental cloister arches in brick. Interior not inspected. Formerly a Missionary College. (M. Airs: The Secular Buildings of Dorchester, Dorchester through the Ages, 1985).
Listing NGR: SU5782694294
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248086
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Airs, M, The Secular Buildings of Dorchester Dorchester through the Ages, (1985)
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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