Milbrook House School House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. Farmhouse, school. 2 related planning applications.

Milbrook House School House

WRENN ID
gaunt-chimney-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 May 1988
Type
Farmhouse, school
Address
Milbrook House School House, High Street, Milton, OX14 4EL
OS grid reference
SU 484 920
Coordinates
51.62525, -1.30087
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Milbrook House School House is a farmhouse that has been converted into a school. It likely dates from the late 16th century and was encased in the 18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick, featuring some flared headers, and has an old plain-tile roof that is half-hipped to the right. There is a brick ridge stack located to the right of the center and an end stack to the left. The structure has two storeys and an attic, with a three-window range. To the left, there is a six-panel part-glazed door surrounded by a painted wood architrave and a flat wood on brackets. The ground floor has four-light casements in the center and to the right, both with segmental brick heads, while the first floor features three-light casements in the center and to the right, also with segmental brick heads. To the left on the first floor, there is a two-light casement with a segmental brick head. A brick dentil course runs along the eaves, and there are hipped dormers on the left and right with three-light horizontal sliding sashes.

An 18th-century addition to the left is also made of red brick and has an old plain-tile roof that is half-hipped to the left. This two-storey, single-bay addition has a four-light casement on the ground floor and a three-light casement on the first floor, both with segmental brick heads.

Inside, the building features a Queen-strut roof and an early 19th-century straight-flight staircase that divides into two flights at the half landing. Some rooms have 18th-century two-panel doors, and part of the stairwell has 18th-century fielded panels. The ground floor includes chamfered spine beams.

Local climate

Milbrook House School House 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 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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