Building record 1054100000 - THE OLD SCHOOL, HIGH ROAD

Grade II. Former school. Circa 1870, probably by G.E. Street. Red brick with stripes and diapers of blue brick, and stone plinth moulding, sill course and windows. Buttresses, chimneys and bell-tower have sloping off-set stone sides. Tiled roof with ornamental bands of fishscale tiles and cusped bargeboards. L-plan with lobby and bell-tower in angle. One storey, 2 bays to road. Left bay is gabled and projecting with flanking buttresses and 3-light plate tracery window with incised floral decoration. Cusped roundel above at apex of gable, both windows with flanking stone impost bands and gauged brick surrounds. Gables of rear cross wing have similar treatment but each with a pair of 2-light windows. Right bay has chimney and lean-to lobby with quatrefoil window to left and bell-tower over arched door to right. Bell-tower has lancet window, stone broach to octagonal wooden bell-cote, and tall slated spirelet with cast iron finial (B1).
The florid old school of 1863 by John Durley of Aylesbury. All the High Victorian favourites here: patterned brick, ornamental bargeboards, fishscale tiles, Gothic windows and jolly bell spire (B2).
Architect Mr Durley jnr. Built by Durley & Son of Bierton. Opened by the Bishop of Oxford on 14th November 1863 (B3).