Burford Grammar School (Main Part Including Lenthall House)

Burford Grammar School, including Lenthall House, is a grammar school that was rebuilt around the 1570s for Simon Wysdom and later altered and extended in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of coursed and squared rubble with a low pitched slate roof, featuring coped verges and an ashlar chimney on the right. It has two storeys and a façade with a 1-5-1 bay arrangement. The windows are rebated hollow chamfered mullions with three lights, though the ground floor on the left has been altered, and the right-hand bay has lower storey levels. A string course runs over the first floor, with six courses below the eaves.

To the left of the right-hand bay, there is a Tudor arch door set within a relieving arch, adorned with ogee mouldings and plain spandrels. Above the ground floor right-hand window is a tablet that reads: "All law and praise be to God:/A. R. Reginde. Elizabeth.xxi Symon. Wysdom, Alderman of Burford. Re-edified/. and.buylded.this.howse. A.D'O 1579:" Three tie rods above the ground floor form the letters B.G.S.

Inside, the lobby features a former decayed nail-studded door, while the ground floor east room has a wide Tudor arch fireplace. The east gable return includes single and two-light mullion windows and a central chimney stack. To the right is a pointed doorway with light Tudor arching and ogee and hollow mouldings similar to the front door, with a label above.

The school extends to the north and east, with Lenthall House connected by a mid-19th century link block. The northeast block, built in the 1870s or 1880s, is made of rough-faced rubble and has two storeys and an attic beneath a mansard plain tile roof. It features cross-mullion windows with relieving arches above, and the east gable end projects forward below a corbelled-out attic end gable, with a stepped chimney on the north return. The date tablet was relocated from Simon Wysdom's Almshouses, which have since been demolished.