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© Mr J. B. Moseley
IoE Number:
244289
Location:
WYKHAM PARK (TUDOR HALL SCHOOL) C17 RANGE TO NORTH EAST OF C19 HOUSE, BLOXHAM ROAD (east side)
BANBURY, CHERWELL, OXFORDSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr J. B. Moseley
Date Photographed:
06 June 2005
Date listed:
09 April 1952
Date of last amendment:
14 February 1986
Grade
II
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SP43NW BANBURY BLOXHAM ROAD
(East Side)
Wykham
3/1 Wykham Park (Tudor Hall
09/04/52 School) C17 range to NE of C19
house
(Formerly listed as Wykham
Park (Tudor Hall School))
GV II
House now school boarding house and music rooms. C17 and earlier, remodelled
C20. Reset datestone 1619 in left end wall. Finely jointed ashlar ironstone.
Stone slate roof laid to diminishing courses with Welsh slate roof to rear.
Renewed stone ridge and end stacks. Stone copinqs with renewed stone kneelers.
Stone plinth. storeys plus attic. 6-window range altogether. Main range is
flanked by wings of one-window width. Main range: 4-centred doorway to left has
chamfered soffit and jambs. Plank door. Doorway is flanked by 3-light
stone-mullioned windows with hood moulds and label stops, To right of door a
small square recess has carved stone floral decoration. Four 3-light
stone-mullioned windows to first floor have hood moulds and label stops. Side
wings have the same window arrangement: 4-light stone mullions to ground flour
and first floor and 3-light stone mullions to attic storey. All windows have
hood moulds and label stops. 4-centred doorways on return sides have plank doors
and hood moulds. Some windows have wrought-iron casement fasteners. Interior:
remodelled. Large C20 additions to rear not of special architectural interest.
(Skelton, J., History of Oxfordshire, 1823, Banbury Hundred, p.6; Beesley, A.:
History of Banbury 1841, p.107 and 349; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire. Vol.X, p.47).