Steppingly Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1972. Schoolhouse.
Steppingly Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- leaning-porch-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1972
- Type
- Schoolhouse
- Address
- Steppingly Schoolhouse, Church Road, Steppingley
- OS grid reference
- TL 012 354
- Coordinates
- 52.00845, -0.52668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Steppingley Schoolhouse is a school building dating from around 1870, designed by Henry Clutton, likely for the Duke of Bedford. It is located adjacent to Steppingley County Primary School. The ground floor is constructed of coursed ironstone with ashlar dressings, while the first floor features colourwashed plaster with applied timber frame decoration. The building has slate roofs and is loosely in the Tudor style.
It is a two-storey T-plan structure with a single-storey outbuilding extending from the northeast, creating an overall L-plan. The main west block has a jettied first floor. The ground floor windows, which reflect those of the school, are mullioned and square-headed, consisting of two and three lights, with each light featuring a cambered arch. The first floor windows are casements with glazing bars. The west elevation includes a jettied gabled dormer. The doorway is situated at the southeast angle, beneath an open porch with a hipped slate roof. There are integral chimney stacks, one on the north gable and another at the southeast angle, both with rounded angles.
Local climate
Steppingly Schoolhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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