1 and 2, School Close is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. Cottage.
1 and 2, School Close
- WRENN ID
- lost-plaster-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1 and 2, School Close, Stoke Rochford
- OS grid reference
- SK 919 273
- Coordinates
- 52.83624, -0.63577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1 and 2 School Close are a pair of estate cottages built around 1840 to 1845 by William Burn. The cottages are constructed from squared coursed limestone rubble, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings. They have Welsh slate roofs with lead dressings, stone coped gables, and kneelers, along with a central ridge stack that originally had four tall octagonal ashlar shafts but now has two.
The cottages are designed in a T-plan and are single storey with attics. The front has four bays, including a pair of rectangular ashlar bay windows with hipped stone roofs and three lights with chamfered mullions. These bay windows are flanked by single fixed lights in moulded surrounds. Above the bay windows, there are through eaves dormer windows with stone coped gables and two light chamfered mullioned windows.
At the rear, each cottage has a single storey range with a tall pair of ashlar octagonal stacks. In the angle between the cottages, there is an ashlar porch with a hipped roof and a plank and muntin door.
Local climate
1 and 2, School Close 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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