Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Hinckley and Bosworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1975. School. 2 related planning applications.
Old School
- WRENN ID
- endless-sandstone-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1975
- Type
- School
- Address
- Old School, Leicester Road, Groby, LE6 0DJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 526 074
- Coordinates
- 52.6626, -1.22362
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This former school building, now a house, was constructed in 1873. It is built from randomly coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof with decorative Gothic-style cresting. The roofline features single ridge and wall stacks with chamfered cornices. The front of the building is a single storey and four bays, with a stepped and chamfered string course and chamfered buttresses. The left-hand bay is advanced and gabled, featuring a fretted bargeboard. It contains a two-light window with Caernarvon arches to each light and stone tracery to the head. Above the window, an ashlar panel bears an inscription celebrating the school’s foundation by the Countess of Stamford and Warrington, along with her cypher and the date 1873. To the right of the advanced bay are three pairs of pointed windows with chamfered ashlar surrounds. All windows are plain top-hung casements. A gabled porch is situated on the right-hand side, displaying a double chamfered and pointed outer arch, and a triangular headed inner door. The group value of this building lies in its contribution to the local architectural heritage.
Local climate
Old School 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 transaction since 2013
- 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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