The Old School and School House is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1977. School. 1 related planning application.
The Old School and School House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-solder-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1977
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School and School House, the Avenue, Bletsoe, MK44 1QQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 023 582
- Coordinates
- 52.21337, -0.50399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School and School House are a National School built in 1852. The school house is a two-storey structure of coursed limestone rubble. It has a three-bay front with a gabled stone porch. The roof is gabled and covered with fishscale tiles, with small bargeboarded gables over the first-floor windows, which contain two-light casements. A single-storey school room forms a rear wing, also with a matching tiled roof. The school room has been recently modernised, with a new floor and two gabled dormers inserted. It features three-light wood mullion and transomed windows and a gabled stone porch.
Local climate
The Old School and 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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