Lacon Childe School is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1954. A C18-C19 School. 3 related planning applications.
Lacon Childe School
- WRENN ID
- vast-chancel-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1954
- Type
- School
- Address
- Lacon Childe School, Church Street, Cleobury Mortimer, DY14 8PB
- OS grid reference
- SO 673 759
- Coordinates
- 52.38017, -2.48054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lacon Childe School is a building with a complex history, dating back to 1740, with extensions built around the 1890s and additions around 1900. It is constructed of stone rubble with an ashlar facade and cornice, and has a hipped roof covered with plain tiles. The building features brick ridge stacks. The plan is a simple rectangle, with later 19th-century set-back wings and significant 20th-century ranges to the rear.
The main facade is two storeys and an attic, with a five-window arrangement of 6/6 sash windows, featuring projecting keyblocks on the south side, all restored except for the ground-floor window on the right. A central doorcase has a rosette architrave, topped by a fascia and broken pediment with an apex crest, which incorporates a crest. The door is a six-panelled design with glazed top panels. Three tiled gabled dormers are positioned on the roof; the central one has been restored and features a two-light casement. An octagonal wooden bell turret with a cupola roof, a ball finial, and a weather-vane is also present.
To the left side is a single-storey, stone-gabled wing dating from around 1890, known as the Baldwyn-Childe Dining Hall. The doorcase fascia bears the inscription: "Sir Lacon William Childe of Kinlet, Knight, by his will endowed this school, the building was erected in 1740." The interior of the school has not been inspected.
The school was re-founded in 1835 as a free school for 20 boarders, with a house for the headmaster. It became a private school in 1890, and was sold to the Local Education Authority in 1935.
Local climate
Lacon Childe School receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings