Village Hall and The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Village hall, former school. 3 related planning applications.
Village Hall and The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- wild-groin-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Village hall, former school
- Address
- Village Hall and The Old School House, High Street, Souldrop, Knotting and Souldrop, MK44 1EY
- OS grid reference
- SP 986 616
- Coordinates
- 52.24427, -0.55676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building comprises a village hall and a former school, constructed in 1868 by the Duke of Bedford, with some modernisation in 1911. It is built of gault brick with a tile roof and some reconstituted stone dressings. The school room presents a gable end to the High Street. This gable features a projecting gablet above a clock dated 1911; the gablet is formed by the continuation of a raised eaves course from the side elevations. It contains two three-light windows with mullions and transoms, separated by a central buttress. The south elevation incorporates a school house in a cross-wing arrangement. The central two-storey projecting gable is dated 1868 and has a ground floor canted bay with a six-light casement and a first floor with a three-light window corbelled over. The cross wing has five-light windows on each of its two floors. A lean-to hood covers the doorway between the gables. The building features several tall, single and double shafted chimneys.
Local climate
Village Hall and The Old School House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2006
- 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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