Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. School. 3 related planning applications.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- patient-chapel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- School
- Address
- Old School House, Lovell Road, Oakley, MK43 7RY
- OS grid reference
- TL 011 531
- Coordinates
- 52.16703, -0.52221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a former school building from the late 19th century, originally part of the Bedford Estate. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features an old clay tile roof with bracketed eaves.
The building consists of a one-storey schoolroom and a projecting one-storey and attic gabled wing on the left side, which serves as the school house. The schoolroom includes a gabled dormer and three tall two-light casement windows with glazing bars, a mullion, and a central transom, all accented by drip moulds. There is a gabled porch at the angle between the wings, featuring stone gable coping with a finial and a four-centred arched doorway with a drip mould. The left gable end has coping and a finial, along with a two-light casement on the first floor and a canted bay window on the ground floor.
Local climate
Old School House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 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
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