Cranfield Primary School and Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1987. School, schoolhouse. 1 related planning application.
Cranfield Primary School and Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- broken-entrance-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1987
- Type
- School, schoolhouse
- Address
- Cranfield Primary School and Schoolhouse, Court Road, MK43 0DR
- OS grid reference
- SP 956 421
- Coordinates
- 52.06913, -0.60605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cranfield Primary School and Schoolhouse is a building constructed in 1862 by T.C. Hine for the Rev. G. G. Harter. The structure is made of snecked limestone with ashlar dressings and features clay tile roofs, showcasing a loosely Gothic style. The buildings are arranged around three sides of a courtyard, which opens towards the road.
The schoolhouse forms the left-hand wing and is two storeys high, while the school consists of a two-storeyed wing at the rear and a single-storeyed wing on the right-hand side. A three-storeyed octagonal tower with a conical roof is positioned at the angle between the two wings of the school.
The road-facing gable of the schoolhouse features a ground floor canted bay, paired single lights on the first floor, and a small trefoil window in the attic. A two-storeyed gabled porch projects from the courtyard side, with an open ground floor that includes a central archway and flanking lights, all adorned with trefoiled arches and foliate capitals supported by columns made of pink stone. Most of the windows in the schoolhouse have paired trefoiled lights.
The rear block of the school has three pointed-arched doorways and windows with two and three lights. The tower includes a pointed-arched two-light window with a cinquefoil in the head on the first floor, and cusped rose windows at the top. Other windows on the tower are single lights. The right-hand block's gable end features a three-light pointed-arched window with a cusped rose window in the head, a polychrome head, and foliate stops to the dripstone. There is also a small quatrefoil in the attic, and like the schoolhouse, most windows are trefoiled lights grouped in twos and threes. The rear block has a carved panel that reads "Deo et Ecclesiae," and the right-hand gable has a small panel with the initials G.G.H. The gables are stone-coped and include ornamental gablets, with the gable of the schoolhouse topped by an ornate finial.
Local climate
Cranfield Primary School and Schoolhouse 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 91% 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 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- 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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