The Old School and School House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1972. School, schoolhouse.
The Old School and School House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-belfry-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1972
- Type
- School, schoolhouse
- Address
- The Old School and School House, Summerside Road, Buckland
- OS grid reference
- SU 344 977
- Coordinates
- 51.6776, -1.50288
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School and Schoolhouse is a building constructed between 1856 and 1857 by G.E. Street. It features coursed limestone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. The structure is one storey high and consists of three bays with a 2:1 fenestration, including a gabled bay to the right that is brought forward. There is a pointed arch over a plank door next to the right gable, along with a mid-20th century lean-to porch.
On the right gable, there is a pierced lunette above a three-light stone mullioned and transomed window with cusped heads. The left front has a similar window with a trefoiled centre light in a gabled half-dormer, as well as a three-light mullioned window with cusped heads and two offset buttresses. The gabled roof is adorned with decorative ridge tiles, a conical ventilator, and an iron bellcote with a pyramidal roof, along with an offset rear lateral stack.
The left gable wall features a similar three-light window with cusped heads, and there is a similar transomed window set in a gabled half-dormer on the right side wall. At the rear, there is a late 19th-century gabled extension built with similar materials, which includes a three-light mullioned and transomed window in the gable wall. An adjoining mid-20th century extension, also in a similar style, has artificial stone walling and is built onto a late 19th-century lean-to that has a plain pointed arch doorway.
To the rear right is a one and a half storey schoolhouse, built in the same style and materials as the school, also dating from 1856-7. It features a pointed arch over a plank door, with a stack against the rear wall of the school, a gable end stack at the rear, and an offset lateral stack to the left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old School and School House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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