Former School House Approximately 15 Metres North of Church of Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1988. School building, church hall.
Former School House Approximately 15 Metres North of Church of Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-moat-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1988
- Type
- School building, church hall
- OS grid reference
- SP 588 296
- Coordinates
- 51.96196, -1.14508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a school building, now used as a church hall, thought to have been started in the early 1830s but not finished until 1870. The building is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with a hipped slate roof. Chamfered brick dressings appear around the windows and door surrounds.
The rectangular building is aligned east to west and entered from the south, with an entrance porch aligned with the southern elevation. Single-storey outbuildings, dating to the 19th century, are situated to the west and east.
A rectangular copper cupola with louvered openings having round-arched heads and a lead roof rises from the centre of the roof; this originally held the school bell. The south elevation incorporates two pointed-arched windows with timber frames featuring Y-tracery. A pointed-arched door opening with its original boarded door is positioned on the east side. A gabled brick porch, also with its original boarded door, has been added to the west, leading to an attached kitchen and into the former schoolroom. A small, high-level window is present on the north elevation towards the east.
The western porch leads to a narrow kitchen, which lacks original features. The schoolroom itself is a simple space and retains few historic features, including a new timber floor. The chimneybreast has lost its original plain surround, although an opening that once housed a stove remains.
A small outbuilding attached to the west has 20th-century timber boarding on the front and a corrugated iron roof and was not inspected internally. Attached to the east end of the former school building is another outbuilding constructed of coursed limestone with a 19th or early 20th-century king-post roof structure covered in slate. This building features two wide openings, while a third to the east has been partially filled with brick. The building has been altered significantly but appears to have originally been used for vehicles and sheltering animals. The eastern bay has two vestigial pointed-arched openings, possibly formerly providing lavatories for the school.
Local climate
Former School House Approximately 15 Metres North of Church of Holy Trinity sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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