Neston Primary School the Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1986. School, school-teacher's house. 6 related planning applications.
Neston Primary School the Old School House
- WRENN ID
- distant-steel-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1986
- Type
- School, school-teacher's house
- Address
- Neston Primary School the Old School House, Church Rise, Corsham, SN13 9SX
- OS grid reference
- ST 860 682
- Coordinates
- 51.4132, -2.20187
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Neston Primary School and The Old School House, dated 1861, is a school and school-teacher's house constructed from coursed rubble stone with slate roofs. The school, located on the left, is a long single-storey building featuring an ashlar bellcote at the west end. It has flush chamfered and stopped mullion windows. The west end includes an upper circular light and a ground floor door set in a moulded pointed arch, with a 2-light window beneath a relieving arch to the right. The south front displays a 3-light window, a large eaves stack over a lean-to with a cusped light on the south wall, and a pointed-arched doorway at the east end, along with two 3-light windows and a large outside stack. There is also a later rear wing. The Old School House, situated to the right, has a 'T'-plan and is two storeys high. The crosswing on the left features a stack on the west roof slope and a gable with an upper sash window beneath a pointed relieving arch, along with a ground floor sash window and door under a segmental relieving arch. The wing to the right has a ground floor sash window with a segmental relieving arch. All openings are chamfered and stopped, with roll-moulded lintels.
Local climate
Neston Primary School the Old School House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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
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