Description

NUNEHAM COURTENAY A423
SU5599 (West side)
9/71 The Old School House
18/07/63 (Formerly listed as School
House)

GV II

School house, now house. Mid C18. Brick in Flemish bond; old plain-tile roofs
with rebuilt brick stacks. 2-unit plan with end outshuts. 2 storeys plus attic.
Symmetrical 3-window front, with storey band and dentil eaves course, has
2-light casements at first floor, and a central 4-panel door with a rectangular
overlight and a flat canopy on brackets. The flanking windows have been altered
to 3-light casements. End outshuts are slightly recessed and have
segmental-arched windows, blind to right. Hipped main roof with 2 gabled roof
dormers and 2 tall stacks rising from the rear. Interior not inspected. Part of
the estate village built c.1760 for the 1st Earl Harcourt.
(H. Batey, "Nuneham Courtenay, an Oxfordshire C18 deserted village", Oxoniensia
Vol.33, 1968, p.108).

Listing NGR: SU5528799160

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26488057

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]