The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. School.

The Old School

WRENN ID
winding-gravel-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1980
Type
School
Address
The Old School, Church Lane, Shadoxhurst
OS grid reference
TQ 971 376
Coordinates
51.10395, 0.81537
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old School, originally built in 1846 as the village school, is a small and attractive building designed in the Tudor Gothic style. It has an L-shaped plan and consists of one storey with attics, constructed from stone rubble, with the north-east gabled end cemented. The building features a tiled roof and shaped Dutch gable ends on each wing. It has casement windows with stone mullions and transoms. At the angle of the 'L', there is a porch that contains a round-headed archway, which has a dripstone above it and is topped with a shaped Dutch gable that displays the date 1846.

Local climate

The Old School sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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