Caistor Primary School and School House is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1985. School, house. 1 related planning application.
Caistor Primary School and School House
- WRENN ID
- lesser-threshold-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1985
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- Caistor Primary School and School House, South Dale, LN7 6LS
- OS grid reference
- TA 117 010
- Coordinates
- 53.49468, -0.31676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Caistor Primary School and School House is a primary school and associated house built between 1859 and 1860 by Maugham & Fowler. The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, featuring gabled roofs covered in red and black banded plain tiles and three brick chimneys, one of which has a shouldered form with a Star of David made of dark header bricks above a decorative plaque. The plaque reads 'Caistor Parochial School 1859' and includes a recessed plaque inscribed "This school was erected by the friends of Mr James Green Dixon as a memorial of his long and valuable services in the cause of religious education, 1859."
The facade has an irregular seven-bay arrangement. The school section is single-storey, while the school house is two storeys high. To either side of the central facade are single, five-light mullioned, horizontally hinged casement windows set within chamfered, plain surrounds. A wing projects to the left, with a three-light window in the Gothic style and three roundels above, flanked by brickwork decorated with dark diaper patterns made from burnt black headers. The gable of this wing features decorated verge details. A later 19th-century screen wall exists behind the facade, leading to a pitched gabled doorway labelled 'Boys', which is also decorated with corbelled bricks. To the right of the central section, the porch for the Girls' side has eaves running along the road and features two Gothic-style quatrefoil windows on its exposed side. The gable end of the two-storey school house is visible beyond the porch, with a modern casement window set within a 19th-century chamfered ashlar surround and a relieving arch filled with tumbled brickwork. Above this is a further modern casement in an earlier ashlar surround with a pointed relieving arch over a tympanum of tumbled brickwork. The gable overhangs and is supported by scrolled timber brackets. A low brick wall with a plinth and ashlar coping, crowned with decorative ironwork, runs in front of the building.
Local climate
Caistor Primary School and School House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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