School is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. School.
School
- WRENN ID
- second-tracery-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School
- Address
- School, Dingley Road, Great Bowden
- OS grid reference
- SP 746 888
- Coordinates
- 52.49257, -0.90155
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Bowden School, built in 1839, is designed in the Tudor Gothic style. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a two-storey pedimented end facade that faces the street. The facade includes three windows with stone labels, wooden mullions, transoms, and glazing bars. A plaque on the building is inscribed with "National School built by Public Subscriptions and Opened December 2nd 1839." Originally, the school had two rooms with a central house and additional rooms for the schoolmaster. The interior layout was likely altered in 1870 to convert the central area into a schoolroom. There is a front ground floor extension that has the original front door reset, and a penthouse roof above. The building also has eastern and western single-storey wings, with the eastern wing advanced and the western wing recessed.
Local climate
School receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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