Parrotts School is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. School. 1 related planning application.
Parrotts School
- WRENN ID
- broken-sandstone-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WOOTTON CHURCH STREET SP4319 (West side) 15/307 Parrotts School GV II School. Building to right has inscribed tablet reading GIRLS SCHOOL/FOUNDED/1836. Coursed limestone rubble; gabled stone slate roof; moulded stone right end stack. 2 storeys; 2-window range. Timber lintels over C19 two-light leaded casements, with small iron opening lights. Building to left has inscribed tablet reading PARROTTS SCHOOL/ENDOWED/1788/BUILT 1835. Similar materials, with brick end stack. One-storey, 3-window range. Stone lintels over 3-light chamfered wood-mullioned windows. Left bay has stone lintel over C20 window above C20 door set in chamfered stone surround. Late C19 rear wing with large stone lateral stack. Endowed with income of 61 pounds per annum from Parrott's charity of 1788, and later by Reverend Charles Lee who built the Girl's School and had School Cottages and Balliol Cottage built as an endowment to provide for education of 6 girls. Included for group value. (Kelly's Directory, 1883, p716; VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol XI, p284)
Listing NGR: SP4389019811
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