King's School ('Old School' Fronting Church Street) is a Grade I listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A Built 1497 School. 40 related planning applications.
King's School ('Old School' Fronting Church Street)
- WRENN ID
- silent-truss-myrtle
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- School
- Period
- Built 1497
- Address
- King's School ('Old School' Fronting Church Street), Grantham, NG31 6RP
- OS grid reference
- SK 914 361
- Coordinates
- 52.91537, -0.64084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King's School, known as the 'Old School' fronting Church Street, is a Grade I listed building dating from 1497. It features a stone construction with a stone slate roof and consists of a large single schoolroom built in six bays, topped by an open timber roof. The original windows are located in the side walls, and there are four-light windows in the west gabled wall, which is adorned with a pelican. The east wall has a doorway with an inner four-centred head and a square outer head. Later buildings on the site were designed by John Bilson in 1904.
Local climate
King's School ('Old School' Fronting Church Street) 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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- 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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