The Old Grammar School is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. A Medieval School. 1 related planning application.
The Old Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- stony-moulding-root
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Old Grammar School, Church Lane, Ledbury
- OS grid reference
- SO 711 377
- Coordinates
- 52.03722, -2.42169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Grammar School is a late 15th-century building that originally served as a schoolroom and master's house, and is now divided into three tenements. It features a timber-framed structure with plastered panels. The south front has a prominent overhang on the first floor, supported by an original moulded bressumer and carved brackets that spring from octagonal shafts with moulded capitals. The building has two storeys and five windows, including an old canted bay window on the left side of the ground floor and old casements with leaded panes, one of which has four lights in the gable of the east end. Timber framing is also visible at the rear and east end of the building. The roof is tiled with gable ends. The Old Grammar School was once a schoolroom and master's house endowed by the Holy Trinity Chantry, which was dissolved in 1547. It is said that the poet Reverend Thomas Traherne, who lived from 1637 to 1674, was educated here. The building is part of a group that includes the Town Council Offices, No 3, Public Lavatories, Hawkes and Terry, and the Prince of Wales Inn.
Local climate
The Old Grammar School receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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