The School is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. School.
The School
- WRENN ID
- rooted-tallow-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- The School, Audit Hall Road, Empingham
- OS grid reference
- SK 949 084
- Coordinates
- 52.66532, -0.59679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School is a building dating from 1838, with an enlargement in 1872. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with quoins and stone dressings, topped with a 20th-century tile roof featuring two small ridge louvres. The building is single-storey and has four 3-light casement windows with small panes that open from the center. The window lintels are adorned with keystones. At each end of the building, there is a porch with a hipped roof made of Collyweston slate and doors. There is also a small 20th-century extension at the rear. A stone tablet in the center of the front facade is inscribed with 'This school was erected by Sir Gilbert Heathcote Bt., MDCCCXXXVIII: enlarged by Baron Aveland, MDCCCLXXII.' The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
The 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 78% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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