The School and Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 2003. School and schoolhouse. 3 related planning applications.
The School and Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- last-gravel-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 2003
- Type
- School and schoolhouse
- Address
- The School and Schoolhouse, 17, Grantham Road, Sleaford
- OS grid reference
- TF 067 452
- Coordinates
- 52.99416, -0.41118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School and Schoolhouse is a former educational building constructed in 1867, with an extension added in 1898, designed by architect Charles Kirk. The structure is made of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs with coped gables and kneelers, decorative ridge tiles, and various stone stacks. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style, characterized by stone mullion windows with cusped heads. The building is single storey, with a two-storey schoolhouse located at the rear.
The façade facing Grantham Road consists of a six-window range of two-light windows, interspersed with buttresses that have set-offs. The central three windows support a projecting stone gable, which features an elaborately corbeled gablet that holds a stone stack and serves as a shelter for the school bell. Below this gable is an inscription panel. Small dormer gablets are positioned towards the apex of the roof. To the left is the chapel, which has lancet windows, buttresses, and a cross finial on the gable.
At the rear, the schoolhouse has a facing gable to the right, with a door set within a segmental arched doorway and a window to the left, both sheltered by a deep porch formed by a catslide roof. Above this porch is a two-light gabled dormer with shaped barge boards. The facing gable features a three-light window with a two-light window above it, while the south side of the building has two two-light windows with two elaborate two-light dormers above. These dormers are partially below the eaves, project slightly, and are made of ashlar supported on corbels.
Inside, the chapel boasts an arched brace roof that rises from wall posts and is supported by brick corbels, along with a carved piscina. The main schoolroom is said to have a similar roof design, although it currently has a suspended ceiling. This well-designed and finely detailed school and schoolhouse complex is notable for including a dedicated chapel. Charles Kirk, the architect, not only designed the entire building but also financed its construction.
Local climate
The School and Schoolhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings