Middle Barton County Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. School and schoolhouse.
Middle Barton County Primary School
- WRENN ID
- ghost-merlon-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- School and schoolhouse
- Address
- Middle Barton County Primary School, 27, Church Lane, Steeple Barton
- OS grid reference
- SP 439 255
- Coordinates
- 51.92647, -1.36165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Middle Barton County Primary School is a school and schoolhouse built in 1866, as noted in a blind oculus. The building is constructed from squared and coursed limestone, accented with bands of dressed ironstone, and features a stone-coped gabled roof made of Welsh slate, complete with finials. Designed in the Gothic-Revival style, it is a single-storey structure with an eight-window range and a central gabled bay. The front façade includes offset buttresses at the outer corners and a central gabled bay that has a blind lunette above two-light trefoil-headed windows. The outer bays feature three-light Caernarvon-arched windows, with trefoiled lights in each outer bay.
The left-end gable is distinguished by large offset buttresses that separate two-light Geometrical windows and a bellcote topped with a pyramidal roof. There is a gabled porch with a plank door set in a chamfered pointed arched doorway, located at the rear left wing, which is built with similar materials. A 20th-century one-storey extension is attached to the left side. The right-end gable also has two-light Geometrical windows and a plank door set in a pointed chamfered surround. To the right of the school, there is a former schoolmaster's house, which follows a similar style and materials. This house is two-storey with an L-shaped plan, featuring a front wing and an adjoining timber porch with trefoiled lights. The interior of the building has not been inspected.
Local climate
Middle Barton County Primary 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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