Racquets Court is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. A Victorian Sports facility.
Racquets Court
- WRENN ID
- half-dormer-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Sports facility
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
RADLEY ST. PETER'S COLLEGE SU59NW 9/107 Racquets' Court GV II Racquets' Court. c.1885. English bond brick; low-pitched hipped Welsh slate roof with glass lantern. One storey; 5-bay range. Gabled porch in end wall: round window above pointed-arched doorway set in segmental-arched surround with imposts, and flanked by segmental-arched windows. Side walls: sunk panel in each bay has pierced stone ventilation holes above and below blind lancets with thin stone imposts. Interior: staircase to viewing gallery. It cost £964 to build. Racquets was first played in the Fleet prison c.1816 and was played in the army and public schools from the mid C19: 12 courts, dating from the 1860's, survive in public schools. (T.D. Raikes, Fifty Years of St. Peter's College, 1897, pp,161-2).
Listing NGR: SU5192999614
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