The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1971. School.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- scattered-iron-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1971
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School, Church Street, Wheathampstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 175 139
- Coordinates
- 51.81157, -0.29576
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a building that was originally constructed as a school in 1862 by E Browning. It is now used as offices and features a polychrome Decorated Gothic style. The walls are made of knapped flint with zig-zag bands of yellow gault brick, and the roof is covered with Westmoreland slate, displaying a zig-zag pattern of Welsh slate. The east gable end has a wooden belfry set diagonally, topped with a leaded spike, and features traceried woodwork beneath the gable. The building is single storey, and the Church Street side has three gables, each above a three-light traceried window, with dog tooth eaves. There is a slightly later west extension that includes a plate-traceried, two-light window beneath a smaller gable, along with two similar windows on the return gable end. A round arch window on the west gable has foliate label stops. The rear elevation has been significantly altered.
Local climate
The Old School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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.
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