School and School House with Boundary Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. School, school house. 1 related planning application.

School and School House with Boundary Walls

WRENN ID
shifting-landing-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stroud
Constituency
North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 August 1990
Type
School, school house
Address
School and School House with Boundary Walls, Painswick, GL6 7QA
OS grid reference
SO 871 073
Coordinates
51.76432, -2.18726
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former school and school house, now a dwelling, dates from the mid-19th century. The school room features dressed squared Cotswold limestone with a cavetto cornice and blocking course, coped gables, and concrete tile roofing, along with two metal ridge ventilators. The cornice extends to the gable ends, where it crowns projecting pilasters. This single-storey structure originally had two entrances, likely for boys and girls, and includes three 2-light and one 3-light chamfered mullion casements with four-centred heads and stopped drips. Between the first and second windows is a 20th-century glazed door in the original opening, also with a four-centred head and stopped drip, while there is a blocked doorway to the right with the same detail. Each gable features a large 3-light mullioned casement.

The School House is designed in a late Gothic villa style and is connected to the school room by a single-storey block that shares similar architectural details. It has ashlar walls with alternating courses of plain and beaver-tailed tiles. This two-storey building has a gable at the left eaves and a full gable at the right, with a central gabled porch that has an arched opening leading to a plank door, flanked by small side-lights, and topped with a small oculus. There are two-light casements on both sides at each level, with the mullions featuring stopped chamfers. The link unit to the left also has a similar 2-light casement, and all casements include horizontal bars. A large external gable stack is located on the left side.

In addition to their architectural significance, these buildings are notable for their connection to Laurie Lee's 'Cider with Rosie'. The boundary wall along the road is made of carved squared limestone with weathered coping, and at the far left end, there is an iron gate. The wall drops to a lower level opposite the house and returns to a pair of iron gates, contributing to the overall setting of the group.

Local climate

School and School House with Boundary Walls receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
  • 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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