Blake House Blake School is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1988. School, barn.
Blake House Blake School
- WRENN ID
- open-bailey-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 March 1988
- Type
- School, barn
- Address
- Blake House Blake School, Witney
- OS grid reference
- SP 361 096
- Coordinates
- 51.78442, -1.47744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blake House, also known as Blake School, is a 17th-century tithe barn that has been remodeled as a school around 1850-1860. The schoolhouse at the front features squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, a gabled stone slate roof, and brick end stacks. It has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys high with a symmetrical two-window range. A bracketed flat hood is positioned over a beaded four-panelled door that includes an overlight. Stone lintels are present above six-pane sash windows. To the left, there is a 20th-century two-storey bay. The school section at the rear is constructed from similar materials and is designed in the Gothic Revival style, featuring a quatrefoil window to the right and 20th-century extensions to the left. The rear gable includes a quatrefoil light above a four-light window with intersecting tracery. A right-angle wing at the rear right has a hood mould, a pointed chamfered doorway, and a two-light window with cinquefoil heads. Inside, the former barn has a five-bay collar-truss roof with butt purlins. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Blake House Blake School receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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