The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1972. School. 2 related planning applications.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- over-steeple-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1972
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School, High Street, Stanford in the Vale, SN7 8NQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 343 933
- Coordinates
- 51.63783, -1.50439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a school building dating from 1853, designed by G.E. Street. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings and brick quoins, featuring an original tile roof and brick stacks. The building is single storey and has a Gothic Revival style, with a 2:1:2 arrangement of windows broken by a gabled central wing.
On the left side, there is a plank door set in a pointed arch with a chamfered architrave, flanked by 2- and 3-light stone mullioned windows that have square trefoiled heads. The gable wall of the projecting wing features a late 13th-century style 2-light window. The right wall includes a central plank door with an original knocker, also in a pointed arch with a chamfered architrave, accompanied by similar 2-light windows—one to the left and two to the right, with the last two having blind cusped heads.
The roof is gabled, with a ridge stack on the front projecting wing and a gable end stack to the right. The left side wall of the gabled projection has another plank door in a pointed arch with a chamfered architrave, while the right gable wall has two 20th-century casements on the ground floor and two 2-light stone-mullioned windows with blind trefoiled heads. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old School receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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