Shirburn School House, Oxfordshire Jan 2016

[mookster]

Oxfordshire has very limited options when it comes to exploring nowadays, and the old school in Shirburn was one of the very few sites I so far hadn't explored in my home county. I had tried it during the summer a couple of years ago but was thwarted by a very vocal local shouting at us, and even if that hadn't happened I doubt we'd have got in anyway as the whole place was massively overgrown with brambles in mid summer anyway.​

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After hearing Mikeymutt was heading westwards and passing through Oxfordshire I jumped at the chance to organise a little morning excursion and so we met up and explored four small sites in total before I had to head into work - a house which was crap and neither of us took any photos of, the Shirburn School House and the other small School House I found last year as well as an amazing disused church I never even knew existed.​

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There is very little information about this building online, but it is believed to have become Shirburn School House in 1871 and in 1946 it was reorganised into a junior school before closure in 1950. In the years since then it's unclear whether any other uses were found for the building but I guess not. It's held up amazingly well considering it's been empty now for over 65 years.​

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Thanks for looking, more on my flickr ​

 

[Perjury Saint]

Nice bit of natural ingress there

 

[Bonesout]

Cant have been empty that long.   Kitchen to new.   Good shots as always there Mookmyster.

 

[Urbexbandoned]

I like the old butler sink in the kitchen and the second pic with the paper peeling off the walls. Nice mate  

 

 

[hamtagger]

Nice level of decay, peely and greenery there Mooks. Shame about the poor toilet having a roof land on it, poor little thing