Part of Burford Grammar School is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. House.
Part of Burford Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- vast-remnant-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Part of Burford Grammar School, 2, Church Lane
- OS grid reference
- SP 252 123
- Coordinates
- 51.8091, -1.63564
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Part of Burford Grammar School, this building was originally an inn until 1887 and now serves as staff accommodation. It has an early to mid-17th century appearance, with some alterations. The structure is built of coursed rubble and topped with a Cotswold stone roof. It is two storeys high with an attic and features a long two-storey range with three windows, plus a two-window gabled range to the right. The windows are primarily wood mullioned, with some restoration; the main part of the ground floor now has 20th-century casements. The first floor and attic windows have wooden lintels that are chamfered to fit their surrounds. On the first floor, there are oak ovolo mullion windows to the right of the main range and to the right of the gable. The ground floor of the gable boasts an impressive mid-17th century 4:4-light king-mullion window with a rebated transom in an ovolo-moulded surround and a restored ovolo-moulded lintel, indicating repairs to the wall face. The gable also retains leaded casements to the right of the two attic windows, again with oak ovolo. There are blocked doorways to the left and two more blocked doorways in the main block, along with an elliptical head doorway to the right beneath a relieving arch. The building features three ashlar chimneys. Inside, the ground floor west room is accessed through a double chamfered doorcase with urn-stops, and includes a Tudor fireplace, cross beams, and two panels of strap-work plaster decoration. There is a circular indent in the south wall where former stairs were located. The rear has brick extensions. Notably, William Morris's widow lived here, and the building is shown on the Ordnance Survey map as Nos 1-4 with School House.
Local climate
Part of Burford Grammar School receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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