Old Grammar School is a Grade I listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 July 1952. A 1614 School. 2 related planning applications.
Old Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- scarred-oriel-merlin
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 July 1952
- Type
- School
- Address
- Old Grammar School, Church Square, LE16 7NB
- OS grid reference
- SP 733 872
- Coordinates
- 52.47835, -0.92121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Grammar School is a Grade I listed building dating back to 1614. It is a restored timber-framed structure with an open ground floor that was previously used for market activities, and a former schoolroom located above. The building features substantial framing supported by a timber arcade consisting of three and two bays, with ten octagonal posts resting on stone plinths, curved braces, and dragon beams above. The first floor has plastered infilling adorned with pargetting from a restoration in 1868. The building has oversailing central gables and a roof turret that was originally constructed in 1697, which contained a bell of the same date that was replaced in 1868 when a rear staircase wing was added. A quotation from Ephesians II is painted around the entire building on the bressumers, along with a record of its foundation and endowment by Robert Smythe in 1614.
Local climate
Old Grammar 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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