King Edward VI Grammar School and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Grammar school.
King Edward VI Grammar School and Railings
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-storey-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Grammar school
- Address
- King Edward VI Grammar School and Railings, Church Street, Spilsby, PE23 5DU
- OS grid reference
- TF 400 661
- Coordinates
- 53.17386, 0.0936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King Edward VI Grammar School, founded in 1550, is a grammar school with railings that was altered in 1896. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings, featuring a pantile roof with stone-coped gables and a gable stack, as well as a machine plain tile roof. It is a two-storey, four-bay 18th-century range that includes a plinth and a first-floor band, with alterations made in the 19th century. The ground floor has four glazing bar sash windows set in plain ashlar surrounds with keystones and deep cills, one of which is inscribed with "Grammar School, founded 1550." The first floor features four glazing bar sash windows with yellow brick segmental heads. To the right, there is a single-storey block from 1896 that has a planked door and two small-paned overlights, all set in an ashlar surround with a deeply dentillated cornice. Adjacent to this is a gabled bay with a tripartite window arrangement of glazing bar sashes and overlights in a wide flush ashlar surround, above which is a segmental-headed inscription panel commemorating the rebuilding in 1914. The later addition to the rear is not included in this description. In front of the building, there are ten cast iron fluted columns with mushroom knops and chains, made by Gibson of Stamford.
Local climate
King Edward VI Grammar School and Railings receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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