Campton Lower School and Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. School and schoolhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Campton Lower School and Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- tattered-finial-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- School and schoolhouse
- Address
- Campton Lower School and Schoolhouse, Rectory Road, Campton and Chicksands, SG17 5PF
- OS grid reference
- TL 128 381
- Coordinates
- 52.03024, -0.35667
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Campton Lower School and Schoolhouse is a school and schoolhouse built in 1875. It is constructed of yellow brick with stone dressings and features a clay tile roof adorned with bands of fishscale tiles and ridge cresting. The building has a complex plan, with the school located to the south as a single-storey structure, while the schoolhouse to the north is also one storey but includes attics. The overall shape of the building is roughly L-shaped.
On the road elevation, the school is on the left-hand side. The left-hand projecting gable has two 2-light mullion and transom windows, along with small paired lights at the apex. The right-hand block features a plank door with strap hinges beneath a cambered head, a 5-light mullioned window, and a square bell-cote topped with a sprocketed pyramidal roof.
The schoolhouse is on the right-hand side. Its left-hand projecting gable has a canted bay on the ground floor and a 2-light window above. The right-hand block includes a plank door set within the angle under a hipped tiled hood, a 2-light window on the ground floor, and a gabled dormer above with a 2-light window. All windows are mullioned. There are paired octagonal stacks with moulded cornices located at the rear of the right-hand block and at the side of the left-hand block where it meets the school. All gables are topped with stone coping.
Local climate
Campton Lower School and 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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