The Shakespeare Centre Grammar School is a Grade II* listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. School. 2 related planning applications.

The Shakespeare Centre Grammar School

WRENN ID
stranded-window-poplar
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Rutland
Constituency
Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1950
Type
School
Address
The Shakespeare Centre Grammar School, Church Street, Oakham, LE15 6DR
OS grid reference
SK 861 089
Coordinates
52.6716, -0.72794
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Shakespeare Centre Grammar School, formerly known as the Old Grammar School, is a single-storey rectangular building constructed from coursed rubble, featuring stone quoins and dressings. The roof is made of stone slate with coped gable ends and moulded stone stacks. Each side of the building has three large rectangular transomed windows, each with three lights, stone mullions, and moulded stone surrounds and cills. The south-facing windows have hood moulds above them. There are relieving arches with keystones above the windows, and brick relieving arches on the north side. The entrance door has a moulded stone surround and hood, with a stone tablet above it framed in moulding, inscribed in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Two modern windows have been inserted into the gable end. The building features a stone-capped plinth and a band of dressed stone along its length, inscribed with "Schola Latina Graeca Hebraica AD 1584". The date stone 1584 is located on the west gable, while another stone on the south elevation is inscribed "Rejecta AD 1723". Inside, there is an open timber wing post roof with seven bays. A new doorway was inserted on the south-east side in the summer of 1969, with a commemorative plaque above it.

Local climate

The Shakespeare Centre Grammar School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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