Old School House

HORLEY CHURCH LANE SP4143 (East side) 23/94 Old School House

GV II

School master's house and school room, now house. c.1627 with single-unit addition of 1711 (date on chimney stack). Squared coursed ironstone. Steeply pitched thatched roof. Stone ridge and end stacks with brick shafts, 2 units extended to 3 units. Single storey plus atttic. 3-window attic range. Entrance off-centre to left has C20 door, wand frame and wood lintel, 3-light casement to left with wood lintel. Two 3-light wood casements to right have wrought-iron casement fasteners and wood lintels. Attic has 2- and 3.-light eyebrow dormers with metal casements in wood frames. Wood lintels and wrought-iron casement fasteners. Interior: stop-chamfered beam. Blocked fireplace with C19 overmantle, Some stone flags. Window boxes. C18 straight flight staircase. Butt-purlin roof. Stud partition in attic. Plank door. The C19 school room abutting on the right is not of special architectural interest. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire; 1974, p653; VCH; Oxfordshire; Vol IX, p124)

Listing NGR: SP4169643966