Box Primary School and School House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1985. School, house. 13 related planning applications.

Box Primary School and School House

WRENN ID
quartered-chimney-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 July 1985
Type
School, house
Address
Box Primary School and School House, High Street, SN13 8NF
OS grid reference
ST 825 685
Coordinates
51.41601, -2.25172
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Box Primary School and School House is a primary school built between 1874 and 1875 by J. Hicks of Redruth, with an extension added in 1894. The building is constructed from small ashlar blocks banded with rock-faced rubble stone, topped with Bridgwater tiled roofs and crested ridge tiles. It features a single-storey long school range with a two-storey house at the east end, designed in a Gothic style.

The main front is nearly symmetrical, with two projecting wings that have coped gables, which are crocketted near the apex, flanking a recessed center that has a smaller, slightly projected central gable. The central gable includes a three-light window in a pointed frame, with the lights featuring ogee heads. The wings have similar windows flanked by single ogee-headed lights. The voussoirs alternate between ashlar and rock-faced blocks.

To the left of the central gable is a 20th-century main door, while to the right, there is a two-light flat-headed window and a pointed-arched doorway with Y-tracery above it, inscribed 'Girls and Infants' on the lintel. The left wing extends further left and features a similar doorway inscribed 'Boys Entrance' at the base of a thin ashlar clock tower, which rises to a gabled clock face adorned with clasping square pinnacles and an ashlar pyramid roof topped with two finials. The extension to the left includes a two-light flat-headed window and a west gable. Behind, there is a taller gabled parallel wing.

At the right end is the School House, which has a pointed-arched door and a window above it to the left of a two-storey canted bay with a steep hipped roof that continues as a cross wing to the coped north gable.

Local climate

Box Primary School and School House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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