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

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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
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