Shiplake College is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. A C19 Country house, school. 7 related planning applications.
Shiplake College
- WRENN ID
- sharp-roof-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- Country house, school
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SHIPLAKE SU77NE 10/161 Shiplake College - II Country House, now school. Dated 1890 on water-heads, by Ernest George for Robert Harrison. Red brick with grey brick diaper pattern; probably stone slates brick stacks. Complex plan. Tudor style. 2 storeys and attic, 10 window range. Central 3 storey entrance tower with 2-centred arched doorway to right with recessed porch, with studded door. Irregular fenestration of mainly wooden mullion and transom windows. Complex gabled roof with gabled dormers. Decorative brick stacks. Rear: symmetrical elevation. Central double-height bay window with stone mullions and transoms and glazed door. 4 double-height mullion and transom windows, 2 to each side of bay. Cross wing to left and right with vaulted loggias to the angles. Interior: open-well newel staircase; dinning hall has arch-braced roof and stone hood to fireplace, wooden screen to cross-passage with late C19 stained glass. Common room; former dining room, panelled in oak, stone hooded fireplace on marble columns. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire p.756-7. M.Girouard, The Victorian Country House, 1971. p.187).
Listing NGR: SU7687078274
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