Bow Brick Hill County First School Old Building and School House is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 February 1984. A 19th century School and masters house. 1 related planning application.
Bow Brick Hill County First School Old Building and School House
- WRENN ID
- white-threshold-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes Central MP: Emily Darlington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 February 1984
- Type
- School and masters house
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Bow Brick Hill County First School Old Building and School House, Station Road, Bow Brickhill, MK17 9TJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 906 345
- Coordinates
- 52.00233, -0.68149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bow Brick Hill County First School is a school and master's house built in the 19th century. It features red brick construction with some tile hanging and has tiled roofs adorned with ornamental ridges and finials. To the left, there is a clock tower with an arcaded base, clock faces on the right and left, a bell at the rear with a canopy, and a tall copper spire with a finial. The school section on the left is one storey high, while the house on the right is two storeys, connected by a lower roofed section over the entry.
The school has a wood eaves cornice that forms a first-floor band for the house and a moulded brick plinth band. The school section includes a central half hipped gable beneath the clock tower, featuring two tall cross casements with pointed arches and tile wing tympana. Above, there is a stone band inscribed with the phrase "It is not good that the soul be without knowledge," along with four small gothic arched vents. The rear of the building has three single-light segmental arched windows and a gothic arched entry.
The school house has a projecting gable with a three-light segmental arched cross casement on the ground floor, and an altered casement above that retains original brackets for a small tiled hood. The plain flank elevation features tile hanging on the first floor. There are modern school buildings located at the rear.
Local climate
Bow Brick Hill County First School Old Building and School House 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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