Description

SP4735 ADDERBURY THE GREEN (South side) Adderbury East 7/117 Rawlins House and attached 08/12/55 Wall (Formerly listed as Grammar School)

GV II School and master's house, now house. 1589 for Reverend Christopher Rawlins, extended and probably restored 1847. Coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings; Stonesffield-slate roof with ashlar and brick stacks. 2-unit plan plus extended schoolroom. 2 storeys plus attic. 3 bays to right of front form the house, and have a central doorway with a chamfered stone surround flanked by windows of 4 and 3 lights, plus windows of 3, 2 and 3 lights at first floor; all windows have hollow-chamfered stone mullions, labels and leaded glazing. Schoolroom section has a very tall 4-light stone-mullioned window plus a further chamfered stone doorway; added bay to left has a matching window, as has the gable wall, and continues the chamfered plinth. Right gable wall has aligned mullioned windows of 4, 3 and 2 lights. Steep-pitched roof has gable parapets and one hipped 2-light leaded roof dormer; 2 large lateral stacks to rear and a small stack on the left gable. Single-storey subsidiary range, extending from the junction of builds in an L shape, includes a stone-mullioned window with 2 arched lights and a 3-light mullioned window which may have been re-used. Lintel above the principal door records the foundation in 1589 as does a later inscription on the gable wall. Interior: wide Tudor-arched chamfered stone fireplace; large inglenook fireplace with chamfered bressumer; stop-chamfered Cross beams and inner lintels; stop-chamfered tie beams, in the double-height t schoolroom section with C19 arched braces rising from moulded corbels. Stone wall, approximately 2.3 metres high with a 3-course triangular coping, extends approximately 10 metres eastwards from right gable wall and contains a Tudor-arched chamfered stone doorway. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp415-416; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p11)

Listing NGR: SP4743035591

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