Steppingly County Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1972. School.
Steppingly County Primary School
- WRENN ID
- stark-porch-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1972
- Type
- School
- Address
- Steppingly County Primary School, Church Road, Steppingley
- OS grid reference
- TL 012 354
- Coordinates
- 52.00848, -0.52692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Steppingley County Primary School is a school building dating from around 1870, designed by Henry Clutton, likely for the Duke of Bedford. It is constructed of coursed ironstone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building is a large rectangular block with a gabled roof and single-storey entrance blocks at both gable ends, exhibiting a loosely Tudor style. The front elevation is asymmetrical and includes two projecting chimney stacks, where the lower parts are combined with buttresses and the upper parts are octagonal.
The left-hand stack is flanked by two single-light windows with transoms, while the right-hand stack is flanked by paired two-light mullion and transom windows. All windows are square-headed, featuring lights with cambered arches, and are adorned with square labels that have geometrical moulded stops. The building has an embattled parapet and stone-coped gables with moulded finials. The two entrance blocks have cambered-headed doorways with plank doors on strap hinges. A moulded band at the sill level of the main block continues around the entrance blocks, turning upwards around the doorways to form labels.
Local climate
Steppingly County Primary School 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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