Old School House and Former School is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1996. School, house. 6 related planning applications.
Old School House and Former School
- WRENN ID
- twisted-jamb-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1996
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- Old School House and Former School, School Road, Great Alne, B49 6HQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 111 592
- Coordinates
- 52.23092, -1.83854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House and former School, dated 1840, is a National School now used by the Girl Guides. It is built of painted brick and features slate roofs with brick modillion eaves, hipped roofs, and pedimental gables. The building has brick axial and lateral stacks. The layout includes a central schoolroom, a smaller schoolroom in the east crosswing, and the master's house in the west crosswing, with later outshuts at the rear.
The exterior is a single-storey structure with the central three bays featuring three 3-light windows with round-headed lights and multi-pane cast-iron casements. There is a segmentally arched doorway on the left with a glazed plank door. The right crosswing is slightly advanced and has a pedimental gable, stringcourses, and a 3-light window with segmentally headed lights and similar multi-pane metal casements. The master's house, located in the 2-storey crosswing on the left, has a stringcourse at the first floor level and segmentally arched windows with hoodmoulds, featuring 2-light casements with small panes. The west return has similar windows and a panel at the center of the first floor displaying a small armorial device and the inscription "NATIONAL SCHOOL Built AD 1840." There is also a segmentally arched casement in the outshut on the left. The interior of the schoolrooms is ceiled, but braced collar-trusses are partly exposed. The interior of the master's house was not inspected.
Local climate
Old School House and Former School 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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