School House and Archway Ewelme, England
Listed Building Data
School House and Archway has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1059349
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 18 July 1963
- Name
- SCHOOL HOUSE AND ARCHWAY
- Location
- SCHOOL HOUSE AND ARCHWAY, HIGH STREET
- Parish
- Ewelme
- District
- South Oxfordshire
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SU 64604 91379
- Easting
- 464603.6700
- Northing
- 191379.3985
Listed Building Description
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EWELME HIGH STREET SU6491 (North side) 8/96 School House and archway 18/07/63 (Formerly listed as School House)
GV I
House. c.1450 with C18 alterations. Red brick; old plain-tile roof; brick stacks. 2-storey, 2-window range. 6-panel door to centre. Tripartite sash to right. Single-pane window to first floor centre. 12-pane segmental-headed unhorned sash to first floor right. Massive lateral stack to left. Massive end stack to right. Crow-stepped end gable to right. Rear: C18 front, 2 storey, 6-window range with irregular fenestration of sashes. Interior not inspected but likely to be of interest. Subsidiary wing of single storey and attic to left, joined with a brick squinch. Lancet to ground floor. 3-light gabled half-dormer. Mid C15 gateway to right of Tudor arch flanked by angled buttresses with embattled coping. Part of the complex of buildings built at the expense of the Earl and Countess of Suffolk. The Countess (nee Alice Chaucer) was born at Ewelme in 1409, the daughter of Thomas Chaucer, the lord of the manor, and grand-daughter of Geoffrey, the poet. She married William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk in 1430 (created Duke of Suffolk 1448). The use of brick is one of the earliest in the county. (Malcolm Airs "Ewelme" Archaelogical Journal, Vol.135, 1978, pp.275-280; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.595-600; Guide to St. Mary's Church, Ewelme, and to the AInshouse and to the School).
Listing NGR: SU6460191387
