The former Hanbury Schools with attached school houses is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1989. A Victorian School. 3 related planning applications.
The former Hanbury Schools with attached school houses
- WRENN ID
- ancient-chancel-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1989
- Type
- School
- Address
- The former Hanbury Schools with attached school houses, LE16 7SZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 725 933
- Coordinates
- 52.5335, -0.93255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Hanbury Schools with attached school houses were built in 1873 by Joseph Goddard in a Late Gothic Revival style. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings and has plain tile roofs. It sits on a continuous plinth with set-offs and a dentilled brick eaves cornice.
The main schoolroom block is single-storey and seven bays, with a three-bay gabled projection featuring stone coping, kneelers, and a gabled stone bellcote. A single lateral stack is also present. A heavily chamfered pointed arch is centrally positioned, containing a circular stone plaque dated 1873 within its tympanum, and with a two-light casement below. Flanking this are similar pointed arches, each framing a stone-framed oculus in the tympanum and a two-light casement, all beneath a decorative brick hoodmould with stone carving. A stone plaque below the central window commemorates the founding of the schools by the Revd William Hanbury in 1767, and includes the inscription "Glory be to God on High and on Earth, Peace, Goodwill toward men." To the right of the gable projection are several three- and single-light windows, separated by a buttress with an inset stone shield. All windows feature cambered arches and a continuous dogtooth hoodmould. To the right is a lower, separately roofed two-bay lobby with a pointed doorway and part-glazed double plank doors, surmounted by a plaque reading "Boys School." Further along, a doorway with a shouldered arch and part-glazed plank door provides access to one of the attached school houses. On the left side of the main block is a similar lobby arrangement with a plaque inscribed "Girls School".
The school house attached to the right has diagonally placed and heavily moulded gable stacks and two lateral stacks. It features a first-floor string course, a single-storey bay, and a single two-storey bay with a moulded eaves cornice and kneelers. A three-light casement sits to the left, and a six-light bay window with a plain tile roof is to the right, topped by two single-light casements side by side under a moulded brick arch.
The school house attached to the left has two diagonally placed, moulded lateral stacks and is two bays wide and two storeys high. It features a trio of ascending lancet windows with hoods to the right and a five-light bay window with a plain tile roof to the left, with a three-light casement above, beneath a moulded, shouldered arch.
Local climate
The former Hanbury Schools with attached school houses 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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