Parrotts School is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. School. 1 related planning application.
Parrotts School
- WRENN ID
- broken-sandstone-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- School
- Address
- Parrotts School, Church Street, Wootton, OX20 1DH
- OS grid reference
- SP 438 198
- Coordinates
- 51.87515, -1.36385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parrotts School is a school building located on Wootton Church Street. The building on the right has an inscribed tablet that reads "GIRLS SCHOOL/FOUNDED/1836". It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and features a gabled stone slate roof with a moulded stone stack at the right end. The structure is two storeys high and has a two-window range. It has timber lintels above 19th-century two-light leaded casements, which include small iron opening lights.
The building on the left has an inscribed tablet that reads "PARROTTS SCHOOL/ENDOWED/1788/BUILT 1835". It uses similar materials but has a brick stack at the end. This section is one storey high with a three-window range, featuring stone lintels over three-light chamfered wood-mullioned windows. The left bay has a stone lintel over a 20th-century window above a 20th-century door set in a chamfered stone surround. There is also a late 19th-century rear wing with a large stone lateral stack.
The school was endowed with an income of £61 per annum from Parrott's charity established in 1788, and later by Reverend Charles Lee, who built the Girls School and provided for the education of six girls through the construction of School Cottages and Balliol Cottage as part of the endowment. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Parrotts School receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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