Prior Park House Prior Park School is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1970. Building. 1 related planning application.

Prior Park House Prior Park School

WRENN ID
weathered-marble-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North West Leicestershire
Constituency
North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 May 1970
Type
Building
Address
Prior Park House Prior Park School, White Gables and Old School House, Upper Packington Road, Ashby De La Zouch, LE65 1EF
OS grid reference
SK 362 164
Coordinates
52.7441, -1.46478
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Prior Park House is an early 19th-century building located on Prior Park Lane. It features a stucco facade with an eaves cornice and a blocking course, and it has a symmetrical design across three storeys. The recessed centre of the facade includes six windows and a central blind panel, with French casements on the ground and first floors and sash windows on the top floor. The outer advanced bays each contain one sash window with glazing bars. There are curved corner porticos at the angles between the front and sides of the building, with the northern portico supported by four fluted pillars. The eastern or rear facade is roughcast and has an eaves cornice, quotas, and gabled ends, featuring eight windows, with the outer bays containing three each, mostly barred sashes.

Local climate

Prior Park House Prior Park School receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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