The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1988. Offices. 3 related planning applications.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- cold-hinge-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1988
- Type
- Offices
- Address
- The Old School, Water End, Alwalton, PE7 3UU
- OS grid reference
- TL 134 960
- Coordinates
- 52.55051, -0.32839
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a building that was formerly used as a school and is now offices. It dates from the mid to late 19th century and is constructed of yellow gault brick, featuring red brick and stone dressings. The roof is covered with Welsh slate. The building is two storeys high and has five equal buttressed bays. It has a 20th-century boarded door and includes one two-light window and three single-light windows, all with pointed brick arches and pointed foiled heads. Additionally, there are three inserted gabled dormer windows with casements.
Local climate
The Old 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings