The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. Houses.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- former-banister-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1987
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- The Old School House, 1 and 2, Adlestrop
- OS grid reference
- SP 243 258
- Coordinates
- 51.93078, -1.64677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a former school and school house, now divided into two semi-detached houses, built around 1870 for Harman Grisewood. The structure features coursed squared and dressed limestone and sandstone, with ashlar quoins and limestone stacks. The school house, located on the right, is 'T' shaped, as is the attached school on the left. Designed in the Tudor-Gothic style, the school house has two storeys, while the school, originally one storey, has been raised to two.
The gable end of the school house projects forward on the right, and the gable end of the school projects forward on the left, which includes a single-storey porch set back at right angles. The ground floor of both gable ends is illuminated by canted bay windows featuring 'Tudor'-arched lights with horizontal glazing bars. A parapet with pierced trefoil decoration is positioned over the right-hand window.
The windows include a two-light stone-mullioned casement with 'Tudor'-arched lights and a stopped hood above, a three-light 20th-century stone-mullioned casement with glazing bars and a stopped hood over the left-hand bay, and a round-headed niche above. There is also a single light window with a 'Tudor'-arched head in the porch on the left. The entrance features a 19th-century plank door with decorative hinges set within a 'Tudor'-arched surround, complete with carved spandrels and a stopped hood. Access to the former school house is through the gable end of the porch. The gables at the front are adorned with moulded saddleback gable coping, pointed cusping, and finials at the apexes. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old School House receives an average of 780 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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