Bell's Old Grammar School Old Grammar School is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1953. School, house. 3 related planning applications.
Bell's Old Grammar School Old Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-minaret-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1953
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- Bell's Old Grammar School Old Grammar School, Newland, GL16 8NW
- OS grid reference
- SO 552 095
- Coordinates
- 51.7826, -2.65051
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former school, now a house, dating to circa 1638. Constructed of rubble stone with large dressed stone quoin blocks, it has an asbestos slate roof with coped verges, and stone and brick stacks. The building is shaped like a ‘T’, comprising a long single range and a smaller extension. It has two storeys and an attic window in the gable end. There are four windows in total; the first floor windows are 2-light stone mullioned, while the ground floor windows are paired casements with stone lintels. Two oak boarded doors are located at the corner of the ‘T’ shape. The right-hand gable features a vertical row of three 3-light arched stone mullioned windows with hood moulds and decorative label stops. Above a ground floor window is a coat of arms depicting the founder of the school, Edward Bell, along with a Latin inscription and the date 1638.
Local climate
Bell's Old Grammar School Old Grammar School receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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