The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. A C19 Former school. 1 related planning application.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- steep-corridor-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- The Old School, Burrough Road, Twyford and Thorpe, LE14 2HW
- OS grid reference
- SK 730 100
- Coordinates
- 52.68307, -0.92085
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a former National School, built in 1845 and later converted to a house. It is constructed of ironstone ashlar and brick, with limestone dressings and a patterned tile roof. The building has a plinth, coped gables with gabled kneelers (the north gable featuring a cross), and single gable and lateral brick stacks. It is a single-story building with four bays. Most windows feature diamond glazing.
The west front has a segmental-headed stone doorcase with a flat hood and a six-panel door, flanked to the left by a gabled wing containing a four-light mullioned and transomed casement window. To the right are two two-light mullioned casement windows with flat hoods. To the right again is a projecting gable with a four-light mullioned and transomed casement window, the lower lights originally fitted with 19th-century plain glass. Above this is a recessed datestone inscribed 'MDCCCXLV'. Further to the right is a two-light mullioned casement window with a flat hood.
The south end has a central gabled porch with a four-centred arched doorway and a flat hood. Above the doorway is a tablet inscribed 'National School'. The rear of the building has a full-width, single-story lean-to addition with two doors.
Local climate
The Old School receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% 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 — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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