Desford School is a Grade II listed building in the Hinckley and Bosworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1991. School. 2 related planning applications.
Desford School
- WRENN ID
- waning-rampart-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Constituency
- Hinckley and Bosworth MP: Dr Luke Evans (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1991
- Type
- School
- Address
- Desford School, 54, Main Street, LE9 9GR
- OS grid reference
- SK 477 035
- Coordinates
- 52.62754, -1.29587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Desford School is a school building constructed in 1876. It is made of red brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings, featuring slate roofs adorned with decorative terracotta ridge tiles and a moulded brick stack. The building has a chamfered blue brick plinth, a blue brick cill band, and bracketed eaves. It is a single-storey structure.
The front facing the street has an off-centre former entrance, which includes a partially blocked, pointed arched doorway with a 20th-century casement. To the left, there is a large pointed arched window with four lights, flanked by two three-light cross casements that have chamfered ashlar lintels. On the right side, there is a projecting gabled wing featuring a single large four-light pointed arched window, with a set-back doorway that has a 20th-century glazed door. Both the north and south sides of the building each have a single large four-light pointed arched window. All the pointed arched windows are accented with red and blue brick voussoirs.
Local climate
Desford 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 67% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- 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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