The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. A C19 Cottage.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- winter-doorway-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old School, 4, Ermin Street, Blunsdon
- OS grid reference
- SU 151 897
- Coordinates
- 51.60607, -1.78303
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a very plain early 19th century one and a half storey thatched cottage constructed from painted rubble. It features four windows on the ground floor of irregular sizes, each with brick arches above. There is a blocked door that also had a brick arch and a gable over it. A modern extension has been added to the rear. The building is listed for its historical interest as the Old Dame School.
Local climate
The Old School receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings