Old Wendover School is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 March 1974. School, houses.
Old Wendover School
- WRENN ID
- secret-entrance-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1974
- Type
- School, houses
- Address
- Old Wendover School, High Street
- OS grid reference
- SP 869 078
- Coordinates
- 51.7624, -0.74103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Wendover School is a former school building that has been converted into five houses. The structure consists of two blocks, with the northern block dating from around 1869 and the southern block from 1879. It is attributed to the architect G.E. Street. The building is constructed of flint with red brick dressings and features patterned tile-hung gables. It has steeply pitched tiled roofs with ridge cresting, and a lead-covered spirelet is set diagonally on the northwest range. Tall brick chimney stacks rise through the eaves, with two stacks located in the valleys.
The building is one and two storeys high, and each main gable has a four-light mullioned and transomed window at the upper level, with tiled roof lean-to additions below. The side walls have mullioned and transomed windows arranged in bays that are divided by buttresses. The southern block has a mosaic date plaque on its side, while the northern block features gabled projections at the southern end on both sides and dormers at the angle with a tall window rising through the eaves. The conversion to houses took place in 1976, preserving parts of the interior that remain open to the roof.
Local climate
Old Wendover 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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