The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. School. 4 related planning applications.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- slow-cinder-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School, High Road, Soulbury, LU7 0BX
- OS grid reference
- SP 882 271
- Coordinates
- 51.93566, -0.71744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a former school building dating from around 1870, likely designed by G.E. Street. It is constructed of red brick featuring stripes and diamond patterns of blue brick, along with stone plinth moulding, a sill course, and window detailing. The building has buttresses, chimneys, and a bell-tower, all with sloping off-set stone sides. The roof is tiled and adorned with ornamental bands of fishscale tiles and cusped bargeboards.
The structure is L-shaped with a lobby and bell-tower at the angle, consisting of one storey and two bays facing the road. The left bay is gabled and projects forward, flanked by buttresses and featuring a three-light plate tracery window with incised floral decoration. Above the apex of the gable is a cusped roundel, and both windows are accented with flanking stone impost bands and gauged brick surrounds. The gables of the rear cross wing have a similar design but each contains a pair of two-light windows. The right bay includes a chimney and a lean-to lobby with a quatrefoil window to the left and a bell-tower above an arched door to the right. The bell-tower features a lancet window, a stone broach leading to an octagonal wooden bell-cote, and a tall slated spirelet topped with a cast iron finial.
Local climate
The Old School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2016
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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