Description

MILTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD CHURCH ROAD
SP 2618-2718
(east side)
6/27
Nos 5 and 7 (former
School and Schoolmaster's
5.2.76 House)
GV II

Former Primary School and Schoolmaster's House. 1853-54 by G E Street, Oxford
Diocesan Architect. Rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, steep Cotswold stone
roofs to two of the buildings. Gothic, a muscular variation on the lancet style;
irregular plan, school in 2 parallel rnages, schoolmaster's house L-plan to east.
Coped gables, mostly pointed and triangular head windows, mullioned with transoms.
Main west front has high schoolroom gable with triple paired lancets with triangular
heads and roundels; lean-to below with gabled entry (a Street speciality). Projec-
ting gabled wing to right with high-transomed windows and lean-to bracketed hood to
door on south return. South front has 3 irregular gables, the left-hand one with
recessed arch. North return has 2 sets of 3 cusp-headed lancets with transoms below
string level and a square corner buttress.

Listing NGR: SP2646018712

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26649625

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]