Milford County Junior Mixed and Infants School is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1979. School.
Milford County Junior Mixed and Infants School
- WRENN ID
- second-chamber-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire MP: Jonathan Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1979
- Type
- School
- Address
- Milford County Junior Mixed and Infants School, Chevin Road, Belper
- OS grid reference
- SK 349 451
- Coordinates
- 53.00287, -1.47999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Milford County Junior Mixed and Infants School is a building from the late 18th century to early 19th century, with later 19th-century additions. It appears to have been constructed in two parts for different functions. The school is situated on a sloping site, with the upper floor at street level on the west side and an arcaded ground floor at a lower level on the east side. The ground floor was reportedly used for Strutt wagons, while the upper floor served as the school, which it remains today.
The building is made of coursed stone and has a slate roof featuring large cowl ventilators. It has an angled, symmetrical design with an acute center angle that includes a porch on the street elevation and a flattened stone bow that extends through both floors to the rear. The street facade has twelve windows, which are paired sashes with small panes and cast iron glazing bars. The central stone porch has a panelled door with a fanlight above, and the inner door is similar. Some of the windows have bricked-up panels below them, which may have previously provided access to the arcaded rear stalls.
The rear facade includes part of the arcaded ground floor, which has been filled in, and features paired windows similar to those on the street elevation, along with a window in the bowed flat-roofed center bay. A sill band runs around the building at first-floor level, and there is a later extension at the north end. Inside, the school has very light iron ceiling trusses, likely from the later 19th century, although the rear may have been altered. There is also a walled rear playground.
Local climate
Milford County Junior Mixed and Infants School receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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