Old School and School House is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. Former school. 2 related planning applications.
Old School and School House
- WRENN ID
- little-lead-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- Old School and School House, School Close, Stoke Rochford, NG33 5EB
- OS grid reference
- SK 919 273
- Coordinates
- 52.83602, -0.63612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School and School House, built in 1840 by William Burn, is a former school and school house that has been converted into a house. Constructed from ashlar with a slate roof featuring lead dressings, it has stone coped gables adorned with ball finials and kneelers. The building has two wall stacks and a single ridge stack, each with pairs of shafts and cornices.
The garden front is a single storey with attics and consists of five bays. The end bays are one and a half storeys, projecting forward with their own gables. The central porch is also advanced, featuring a cornice, a moulded parapet with corner pinnacles, and a central bellcote topped with a knopped stone roof. The Tudor arched double doors are flanked by coats of arms. On either side of the porch, there are single two-light casement windows with chamfered mullions and hood moulds.
The advanced bays both include canted bay windows with hipped stone roofs and metal casements. On the first floor, there are two-light chamfered mullioned windows with cornices, and each gable has a rectangular recess. On the roadside, there are short single storey wings that enclose a small courtyard, featuring a Tudor doorway and two-light windows.
Local climate
Old School and School House 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 79% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 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
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