The Elizabethan School Room is a Grade I listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1955. A Renaissance School, art studio. 1 related planning application.

The Elizabethan School Room

WRENN ID
gilded-wicket-violet
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Rutland
Constituency
Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 November 1955
Type
School, art studio
Period
Renaissance
Address
The Elizabethan School Room, Market Place, Uppingham
OS grid reference
SP 867 995
Coordinates
52.58724, -0.7217
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Elizabethan School Room is a historic school building, now used as an art studio, dating from 1584. It was extended around 1830 and restored around 1960. The structure is made of squared stone and features a Collyweston stone slate roof with coped gables, a plinth, and a cornice. The original building consists of one large room, which is illuminated on the south side by four 3-light stone mullioned windows with ovolo moulding and transoms, positioned high up. The west gable end includes a 4-light stone mullioned window, also with ovolo moulding, featuring a king mullion and a centrally-set transom. Above this window, there is a cornice with inscriptions in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, along with a more recent inscription in Latin below. The building has a bellcote, and the east window is similar to the west window but has been renewed. All windows are fitted with leaded panes. Inside, the roof structure was renewed around 1960. There is a one-storey extension to the north that has two windows and a door, which has been boarded up since 1983.

Local climate

The Elizabethan School Room 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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