The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1987. School.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- little-pediment-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1987
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School, Main Street, Blankney
- OS grid reference
- TF 067 601
- Coordinates
- 53.12817, -0.40554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a school building, now used as a parish room, constructed in 1848 by W A Nicholson. It is made of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with ashlar coped gables and moulded kneelers. The building has a T-plan layout and is a single storey.
The main east front consists of five bays with an off-centre doorway that has a contemporary door and an ashlar moulded four-centred arched surround. To the left of the doorway are three three-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows, each topped with curved gables that project through the eaves and are surmounted by three ball finials. To the right, there is a slightly projecting single gabled bay with a large three-light recessed and chamfered cross mullion window under a dripmould.
The north front has two bays, featuring another four-centred arched doorway to the left and a large four-light recessed and chamfered cross mullion square bay window with a stone hipped roof to the right. Above this is a wooden bell canopy topped with a pyramidal fishscale tile hipped roof. This building is part of the complete estate village built by the Chaplin family of Blankney Hall.
Local climate
The Old School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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.
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