The School is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1988. School. 1 related planning application.

The School

WRENN ID
frozen-dormer-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
Constituency
North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1988
Type
School
Address
The School, Gayton Road, Grimston, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
OS grid reference
TF 721 218
Coordinates
52.76676, 0.55068
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The School is a Grade II listed building dating from 1830, with an attached school that was also built in 1830 and enlarged in 1878. It features a small carstone facing with gault brick dressings and a pantile roof.

The school house has three bays and two storeys, with gable parapets and internal end stacks. The principal facade faces south and includes a central doorway with a four-centred arch, a hood mould, and a door that also has a four-centred head. The windows have Gothick headed lights, with three lights in the first and third bays, and two lights above the doorway, all featuring square hood moulds.

The school room, which is three bays wide and three bays deep, was built in 1850 and enlarged in 1878 with a two-bay link to the school house. The school is attached to the west gable of the school house and has a hipped roof. Its south facade consists of five bays, with a large single-storey gabled porch projecting from the third bay, which has a doorway on the left return. All windows feature four-centred arches; the windows in bays one to three have wide gault brick voussoirs, while those in bays four and five have stone hood moulds. The first bay has a single pointed light, the second bay has a double pointed light with a lozenge above, and all lights have vertical glazing bars. Bays three and five contain triple Gothick headed lights with intersecting tracery. The west return has three three-light Gothick openings similar to those in bays four and five of the south facade. The north facade of the school room features single, double, and single lights corresponding to the first two bays of the south facade. There is a porch at the angle of the school room and the link.

Local climate

The School receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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