Clapton Park Lower School is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1975. School. 8 related planning applications.
Clapton Park Lower School
- WRENN ID
- rusted-stair-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hackney
- Constituency
- Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP: Ms Diane Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1975
- Type
- School
- Address
- Clapton Park Lower School, Oswald Street E5, E5 0BT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 360 860
- Coordinates
- 51.55708, -0.03958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clapton Park Lower School is a late 19th-century board school. It is a large building constructed of stock brick, featuring dressings of red brick and terracotta, with high-pitched tiled roofs that include both hipped and gabled sections. The building consists of four sections:
Firstly, on the extreme left, there is a projecting blank gabled wing with a chimney breast. This wing has a left return that features one stepped gable and two pedimented gables, along with terracotta rusticated window architraves.
Secondly, there is a plain five-storey section with three windows, which is only enhanced by moulded strings.
Thirdly, a narrow two-window staircase bay made of red brick rises six storeys and includes an attic. This bay has a shaped gable decorated with terracotta lesenes, angle turrets, and a medallion inscribed with "L.S.B."
Lastly, the main building on the right is three storeys tall with five windows. The bays are divided by thick brick pilasters that rise through the cornice and fit into raised sections of a battlemented parapet. The roof is topped with an ogee cupola featuring a spirelet.
Local climate
Clapton Park Lower School sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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