Old School House and Former School is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. School, schoolhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Old School House and Former School
- WRENN ID
- keen-beam-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School, schoolhouse
- Address
- Old School House and Former School, Bedford Road, Marston Moreteyne, MK43 0ND
- OS grid reference
- SP 994 413
- Coordinates
- 52.0615, -0.55062
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House and former School, originally a National School and Schoolhouse, is now used for commercial and domestic purposes. A date plaque on the building reads "Marston and Lidlington School. 1847" and features the inscription "Fear God." The structure was designed by J.T. Wing of Bedford and is constructed of red and yellow chequered brick with slate roofs.
The building consists of a single-storey L-plan school and a two-storey schoolhouse block set at right angles at the southwest end. The school features a central four-light window in a slightly projecting bay, topped by a small gable. This is flanked by two three-light windows, also in slightly projecting bays. All three windows have timber mullions and transoms, cast iron honeycomb glazing, and are set under gauged brick flat heads. The rear elevation includes one similar window, while the rear wing has plain windows.
The schoolhouse has a gable facing the road with a full-height central projecting bay that features a moulded stone cornice between the floors. The ground floor has a mullion and transom window, and the first floor has a two-light mullioned window, both with the same honeycomb glazing as the school. The southwest elevation includes two windows of a similar style and three blind windows. A central multiple ridge stack of brick is present, and all roofs have deep eaves and verges.
Local climate
Old School House and Former School 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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