The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Former school, house.

The Old School

WRENN ID
tangled-parapet-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Kesteven
Constituency
Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
Country
England
Type
Former school, house
Address
The Old School, High Road, Belton and Manthorpe
OS grid reference
SK 920 378
Coordinates
52.93002, -0.63199
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old School, also known as School House, is a former school building that has been converted into a house. It was constructed in 1865 and features some late 20th-century additions and alterations. The building is made of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof. It is designed in the Tudor Revival style and has a large external rear wall stack with a square stone flue set diagonally.

The structure has a plinth, quoins, coped gables with kneelers, and iron finials. It is a single-storey building with three bays arranged in an L-plan. On the right side, there is a 4-centred arched board door with a datestone above it. On the left side, there are two reglazed three-light windows featuring chamfered stone mullions and surrounds. The left gable includes a canted stone bay window with a gabled parapet and a central stone mullioned cross casement, above which is a quatrefoil in a sunken panel. The rear wing has late 20th-century windows. This educational building was established for the workers on the Belton estate by the Brownlow family of Belton House.

Local climate

The Old School 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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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