School House the Old School is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1987. School. 1 related planning application.
School House the Old School
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1987
- Type
- School
- Address
- School House the Old School, 1, High Street, Horbling, NG34 0PE
- OS grid reference
- TF 118 351
- Coordinates
- 52.90261, -0.33912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
School with attached Schoolmaster's house, now two houses. Dated 1845; enlarged 1892. Red brick with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roofs.
The building is two storeys with a five-bay front, featuring a steeply pitched stone-coped gable with kneelers and finials. The ashlar-dressed plinth and quoins define the facade, with moulded brick eaves. Twin-flue stacks to the left end and to the right of bay 2 have quoined plinths and octagonal shafts with annulets and cornices.
The School House (2 Spring Lane) occupies bays 1 to 3. The projecting gabled bay to the left has a three-light ashlar-dressed mullion window with moulded cornice. The main doorway to bay 2 has a four-centred arched head with moulded cornice, ashlar-dressed doorcase and part-glazed panelled door. A canted ashlar-dressed bay window to the right has a central two-light mullion window flanked by single lights, with a rectangular sundial above. Above this is a gabled dormer with a two-light window under cornice and a dated shield in the gable.
The Old School (1 High Street) occupies bays 4 and 5 and the east wing. A doorway to bay 4 matches that of the house but has a narrow-panelled door. Bay 5 features a transomed three-light mullion window beneath a gable slit. The large schoolroom has a three-light ashlar-dressed mullion window with transom and moulded cornice.
The east side has two cross-mullioned ashlar-dressed windows with moulded cornices. The east wing of 1892 has ashlar-dressed plinth, quoins and moulded brick eaves. Its doorway to the left has a four-centred arched head with moulded cornice, ashlar-dressed doorcase and plank door, with a cross-mullioned ashlar-dressed window to the right. The steeply pitched gabled east front contains a three-light ashlar-dressed mullion schoolroom window with transom and moulded cornice. Above is a slit light. The gable is topped by an ashlar finial supported by a corbel carved as a man with an open book.
Local climate
School House the Old School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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