The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1988. Former school, school house. 1 related planning application.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-dormer-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1988
- Type
- Former school, school house
- Address
- The Old School House, Baunton, GL7 7BB
- OS grid reference
- SP 021 047
- Coordinates
- 51.74128, -1.97025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a former school and school house, dated and initialled 'J. M. 1849' on a shield located on the porch gable of the school room. It is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone, topped with a stone slate roof that features ashlar and artificial stone stacks. The building has an 'L'-shaped plan, with a single-storey flat-roofed extension on the east that is not of special interest. The two-storey school house is connected at right angles to a single-storey school room.
On the entrance front, the gable of the school house projects forward to the right, featuring a projecting stone-built gabled porch that is off-centre to the left. There is a similar porch for the school room. All windows are 2-light stone-mullioned casements with diamond leaded panes. The Tudor-arched doorway to the porch of the school house is now blocked, with a 2-light casement inserted into the blocking. Above the door is a blank shield. The school room porch has double plank doors, each with a single glass pane. The porches feature stepped coping, roll-cross saddles, and triangular kneelers on their gables, as well as on the south-facing gable of the school house. The building has gable-end and lateral stacks. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old School House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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