Medbourne Old Village School and the Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. School. 6 related planning applications.

Medbourne Old Village School and the Old School House

WRENN ID
eastward-footing-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Harborough
Constituency
Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1985
Type
School
Address
Medbourne Old Village School and the Old School House, Main Street, LE16 8DT
OS grid reference
SP 799 929
Coordinates
52.52881, -0.82317
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Medbourne Old Village School and The Old School House is a former school and teacher's house built between 1868 and 1869. The building is constructed from coursed rubble stone and squared stone, featuring stone and red brick dressings. It has a roof made of striped plain and fishscale tiles, adorned with two ornamental brick ridge stacks and a similar stack at the rear gable end. The gables are stone-coped, and the eaves are elaborately moulded in brick, all designed in the Gothic style.

The façade includes two large gables with two smaller gables in between, with the left gable housing the school. The building has two storeys with four windows: the leftmost window is a five-light window with cast iron glazing bars, followed by a three-light window under a brick arch with stone plate tracery, and then two-light, one-light, and two-light windows. On the ground floor, there is a large projecting lean-to porch with two one-light windows on either side of a central gable featuring a brick arch and an openwork part-glazed door. Additionally, there is a three-light casement window with top lights, a part lean-to porch with another openwork part-glazed door, and another three-light casement window with top lights. The left side of the building has four paired top-opening one-light windows with cast iron glazing bars, and there is a gabled porch to the left.

Local climate

Medbourne Old Village School and the Old School House 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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