The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1977. Former school. 9 related planning applications.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- low-niche-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1977
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- The Old School, 1-4, High Street, Henley-In-Arden, B95 5BN
- OS grid reference
- SP 150 657
- Coordinates
- 52.29008, -1.78051
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School, now divided into four houses, was built in 1883 and altered in the 1980s. It is constructed of brick in English bond, with limestone ashlar dressings, and has machine-tile roofs with decorative cresting and finials. A central tile-hung bell-turret and brick stacks are also present. The building is designed in a Gothic Revival style and has a H-shaped plan.
The exterior is single-storey and symmetrical with a five-window range. The central gable and end gables break forward. It features a plinth, offset buttresses, and a flush sill band. The central gable is coped with kneelers and the end gables have moulded verges, banding, and small slits. The central gable has paired pointed entrances with half-glazed doors, margin lights, tall fanlights with small-paned glazing, and a small round window above, all contained within a trefoil relieving arch with a hood. There are three windows to each side of the centre, with small-paned glazing above larger nine-pane glazing; some late 20th-century skylights are present.
The wings have pairs of pointed windows with hoods and six/nine-pane glazing to the lower sashes and small-paned glazing to the arches. The wing to the left has a stack to the angle with fillets and a cornice. The bell-turret has an open timber structure with a swept pyramidal roof; ventilation louvres are at the base on both sides.
The right return, facing School Lane, has a gabled entrance with moulded verges and three stepped lights over a pointed arch with splayed jambs, a battened door with strap hinges, and a stack to the left with a diagonal shaft. A small-paned window is to the left and three segmental-headed windows are to the right.
The left return, facing Milking Lane, has a gable over two pointed windows. An entrance with a 20th-century door is to the left, and there is a 20th-century window at the end of the rear wing. The rear of the building has two rear stacks and a hipped projection to the longer wing to the left.
The interior was not inspected. The building has group value with other listed items along High Street.
Local climate
The Old School receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 13 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 9 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
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