Madingley School is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1999. School, school house.
Madingley School
- WRENN ID
- silent-postern-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 1999
- Type
- School, school house
- Address
- Madingley School, Cambridge Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 397 603
- Coordinates
- 52.22326, 0.04396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Madingley School is a school building and attached school house, now used for a play group. It was built in 1844, with an extension around 1870 and further additions in the 20th century. The structure is made of gault brick in rat-trap bond and features a roof covered in large fish-scale tiles, with coped gables and kneelers. There is a central brick stack with four linked flues set diagonally, and the building is designed in a simplified Tudor style.
The main school room is the central range, with the former house acting as a projecting cross wing to the left. The façade includes a three-window range featuring 3- and 4-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows, with a 3-light window above to the left. To the right, there is a projecting porch with a shaped gable, a datestone, and a round-arched doorway with a door. A large tall window is located on the right end gable. The rear of the building has extensions from around 1870 and the 20th century.
Inside, the school room retains its open roof. This village school has been slightly altered but still showcases its unusual roof tiles and brickwork.
Local climate
Madingley School sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% 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 52% 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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