County Primary School and School Master's House is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1987. School, house.
County Primary School and School Master's House
- WRENN ID
- low-lancet-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1987
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- County Primary School and School Master's House, Village Street, Woolsthorpe by Belvoir
- OS grid reference
- SK 837 339
- Coordinates
- 52.89621, -0.75708
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The County Primary School and Schoolmaster's House, built in 1871 and enlarged in 1894, is located in Woolsthorpe by Belvoir. This structure features rockfaced ironstone ashlar with limestone ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with stone coped slate roofs that include kneelers and lead ball finials. It has two ridge and a single wall stack, with diagonally set paired ashlar stacks that have deeply moulded cornices. There are also two ridge ventilator turrets with pyramidal roofs and lead dressings.
The building is a single storey with attics and has an eight-bay front. The leftmost bay and the second bay from the right are advanced and have separate gables, with stone dentillated eaves. To the right, there is a half-glazed door with a cornice, while in the advanced bay to the left, there is a large canted bay window with a three-light window above and a gable slot. To the left of this, there is a pair of three-light mullioned and transomed casements with cornices, alongside a pair of tall through eaves and separately gabled three-light transomed windows, with a central three-light window that also has a cornice. In the left-hand advanced bay, there is a doorway with a plaque above it inscribed "Erected AD 1871, enlarged 1894," along with a slot in the gable above.
Local climate
County Primary School and School Master's House 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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