Village School is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1986. School. 5 related planning applications.
Village School
- WRENN ID
- western-basalt-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Outer MP: Mr Luke Charters (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1986
- Type
- School
- Address
- Village School, School Lane, Heslington, YO10 5EE
- OS grid reference
- SE 628 504
- Coordinates
- 53.9461, -1.04338
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Village School, built in 1856, features a plaque commemorating G and A M Lloyd, and has undergone later additions and alterations. Constructed from red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings, it has a Welsh slate roof. The building is primarily a single storey with four bays, where the third bay projects and is gabled, containing a second storey. There are projecting gabled single-bay wings, with the left wing being a single tall storey and the right wing having a two-storey centre.
The school has a plinth and end entrances that are now glazed, framed by a four-centred surround under hoodmoulds. A plaque is located above the left entrance, and there are heraldic shields to the right. The main entrance has been moved to the rear. The windows include a four-light multi-paned mullion and transom window, a canted bay in the third bay featuring a two-light mullion window with single lights on either side in a double-chamfered surround, and a first-floor two-light mullion window with a relieving arch above. A quatrefoil is present in the gable, and there is an eaves band.
The wings feature buttresses with offsets. The left wing has a four-light mullion and transom window in a double-chamfered surround beneath a relieving arch, and a traceried light in the gable. The right wing has two and three-light mullion windows in double-chamfered surrounds and under relieving arches, with a quatrefoil in the gable. The roof is topped with groups of three octagonal ridge stacks, and a diagonal stack surmounts the left gable. A bell turret is located at the rear. The inscription on the plaque reads: 'THIS SCHOOL WAS PROJECTED BY / THE LATE LAMENTED YARBURGH / YARBURGH ESQre AND ERECTED / BY HIS SISTER AND HER HUSBAND / GEORGE AND ALICIA MARIA LLOYD / AS AN AFFECTIONATE TRIBUTE / TO HIS MEMORY, 1856'.
Local climate
Village School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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