Description

SU 6695 CUXHAM WITH EASTINGHAM CUXHAM

1696/12/10004 Cuxham Church Hall

GV II

National school, now church/village hall. Circa 1850, additions of 1911 and 1960s. Red brick with blue headers in Flemish bond; biscuit-coloured brick dressings. Terracotta spade-shaped tiles and plain tiles to roofs. Brick chimneys. Single storey. Three bays with central gabled porch; 4th bay added on left 1911; two flat-roofed additions to rear 19605. Plinth. Porch has chamfered pointed-arched entrance; terracotta kneelers, verges and finial; plain-tile roof; and tile floor. Windows of paired trefoil-headed lights with iron saddle bars and diagonally-leaded glazing. Spade-shaped tiles and roll-moulded ridge to original; plain tiles to extension. Returns each have a similar window of 3 stepped lights with transom and central casement; and decorative iron grille to gable.
REAR: two external stacks, that on right added, with dentilled cornices and diagonally-set flues.
INTERIOR: bricked-up rear-wall fireplace at centre of original part; added bolection-moulded fireplace. Corbelled roof trusses. The roof members of the original part (principal rafters, common rafters, purlins and ridge-piece) are formed of flat iron bars sandwiched by terracotta blocks, and the spade-shaped tiles are bedded onto plain tiles. Former partition divided the building into 2 + 2 bays, and the continuation of this is visible in the roof space, comprising a pointed-arched wooden window with mullions and transom.
A well-preserved mid-C19 national school with an unusual form of roof construction. Source
leaflet on Cuxham Village Hall.

Listing NGR: SU6667295229

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26407075

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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