Building record 1139700000 - OLD WENDOVER SCHOOL

Summary

Nineteenth century school built in about 1869 and 1879, now five houses.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1118408: OLD WENDOVER SCHOOL (DBC2239)

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Type and Period (3)

  • INFANT SCHOOL (Built about 1869, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • HOUSE (Modern - 1976 AD to 1999 AD)
  • JUNIOR SCHOOL (Built 1879, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade II. Former school now 5 houses. Two blocks: northern of c.1869, southern dated 1879. Attributed to G.E. Street. Flint with red brick dressings; patterned tile hung gables. Steeply pitched tiled roofs with ridge cresting. Lead covered spirelet set diagonally on N.W. range. Tall brick chimney stacks rise through eaves, 2 stacks in valleys. 1 and 2 storeys, each main gable has 4-light mullioned and transomed window at upper level, tiled roof lean-to additions below. Side walls have mullioned and transomed windows in bays divided by buttresses. S block has mosaic date plaque on W. side. N. block has gabled projections at S. end both sides and dormers in angle with tall window rising through eaves. Converted to form houses 1976, leaving parts of interior open to roof (B1).
The Infant School is a neat building of flint and white brick, erected at the cost of Mrs Smith, widow of Abel Smith, Esq. About eighty children attend it (B2).
Historic photos of school buildings in early 1900s, 1922 (interior) and ?1960s (B3).

Sources (3)

  • <1>SBC19351 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p93.
  • <2>SBC19727 Bibliographic reference: James Sheahan. 1862. History and Topography of Buckinghamshire. p212.
  • <3>SBC19640 Bibliographic reference: Paul Dabrowski and John How. 1999. Around Wendover And Halton. pp50, 64, 73.

Location

Grid reference SP 86981 07831 (point)
Civil Parish WENDOVER, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Nov 23 2017 6:02PM

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