Building record 2416/20/9 - Oundle School Cloisters, New Street

NEW STREET ELEVATION of circa 1880 by John Sebastian Gwilt. Tudor style, asymmetrical, with gatehouse and turrets at south end. COURTYARD ELEVATION: comprises several buildings of different dates.

{1} NEW STREET ELEVATION of circa 1880 by John Sebastian Gwilt. Tudor style, asymmetrical, with gatehouse and turrets at south end. 2 storeys in coursed rubble. Left section gabled with a mullion and transom window of 6 lights to each floor, breaks forward with windows of 4 lights to sides. Finial to gable. Plain parapet and heavily carved cornice to wings flanking the gatehouse, which have 5 windows of 2 or 4 lights, arranged irregularly and with mullions and transoms, and with coats of arms. Centr section is gatehouse, of 3 storeys, with crenellated parapet and heavily carved cornice to turret to left, which has animal gargoyle waterspouts. 2 windows of a single light under dripmoulds flank the figure of Laxton in a niche under a carved canopy and over a canted oriel window with a stepped base and crenellated prapet. Entry has 4-centred arch with carved spandrels beneath a rectangular dripmould. Right wing similar to that on the left, but all windows of 4 lights. Bands continue 1st fl or cills. To the right, an octagonal turret with crenellated parapet and gargoyle spouts. 1 light to each face in lantern, centre blocked cusped heads. Curtilage includes low stone wall with gatepiers with lamps. COURTYARD ELEVATION: comprises several buildings of different dates. The WEST SIDE has 7-arched cloisters in stone, with modern additions. The north side has buildings of 1934 of 2 storeys in coursed stone with parapet and plinth. Tudor style. Plain windows except for 1 which is arche with date in spandrels and oriel to right with ramped base which is beneath a small clock and gable with finial. Arched entry under a rectangular dripmould with shield terminals. EAST SIDE has corner block of late C19 of 2 storeys in coursed rubble with stone slate roof with stone verges and end stacks. 2 windows of 6 lights and 1 of 9 break the eaves as semi-dormers, stone surrounds. Similar lights on ground floor. Similar elevation to Church Yard. Next is a house of 1790. 2 storeys in ashl r with 3 modern dormers and 2 hung sash windows with glazing bars on both floors. Elevation to Church Yard has dentillated eaves and platband at 1st floor level. 4 windows to 1st floor, flat arched heads, late glazing. Door to left. The next house has gable end to Church Street and is lower. Symmetrical front of 5 windows, hung sashes with glazing bars, central entrance with wooden doorcase and fanlight. SOUTH SIDE: has porch and plain buildings in Georgian style of 1960. Parapet. Remainder o this side is late C19. Tudor style. Welsh slate roof. 3 gables each with a window of 2 lights. Irregular mullion and transom windows on ground floor and 1 modern door and 2 moulded doorways with arched heads. All the listed buildings in New Street form a group.

{3}Cloisters. Main Oundle School building - greatly architecturally embellished. The buildings at the rear of the courtyard complex are a range of structures of differing dates and indicate re-use by the school Film 2, photo 5,6,7, 21.

{4} Two undated photos;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 1/142 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H16 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Ballinger J., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Oundle (Industrial), (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN100257.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Oundle (Photographs). SNN114658.

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Feb 22 2023 12:04PM