Bluecoats Tysul House

BICESTER CHURCH STREET SP5822S (South side) 3/32 Nos.1 (Bluecoats) and 3 20/03/70 (Tysul House) (Formerly listed as Nos.1 and 3 (Tysal House)) GV II

House, now 2 dwellings. Probably late C17, remodelled late C18. Part-rendered limestone rubble with some wooden lintels; Welsh-slate and concrete plain-tile roofs with rendered stack. 3-unit lobby-entry plan with rear wing. 2 storeys plus attic, and 2 storeys. Rendered 3-window front of main range has a regular arrangement of architraved 12-pane sashes and has 4- and 6-panel doors between the bays; slated roof has one central roof dormer. Rubble left gable wall (to No.1) has a chimney projection with weathered offsets, and has small stair and attic windows; it returns to a lower rear wing which has casements and a single-row dovecote. Rear of main range has a gabled stair projection. Interior: No.1 has a quarter-turn attic stair and a section of re-used mid-C17 panelling at first floor; No.3 has a broad dogleg stair of c.1700, rising to the attics with moulded closed string and handrail, ball finials and heavy turned balusters, and also has an early-C18 bolection-mould door. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.17).

Listing NGR: SP5823822320