The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1983. House.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-hinge-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old School House, Main Street, Shalstone
- OS grid reference
- SP 641 365
- Coordinates
- 52.02346, -1.06617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a former school and schoolmaster's house, now a residential property, dated 1852. It is constructed of yellow brick with limestone dressings, featuring gable copings and kneelers. The roof is tiled and includes ornamental bands of fishscale tiles. The building is designed in a Tudor style and has an L-plan layout, with a full-height hall in a gabled projecting cross wing to the right and the schoolmaster's house to the left. It has one storey and an attic.
The mullion windows have been lowered and feature flood-moulds and lozenge-patterned cast iron glazing bars. The hall includes a three-light window on the ground floor and a pair of arched lights in the attic. A bellcote on the ridge has a pyramid roof supported by classical pilasters. There is a porch in the angle that is gabled to the south over a former doorway, with the present door located beneath a lintel inscribed "Feed my Lambs." The left-hand range has two windows, a three-light and a two-light, along with a gabled dormer at the rear. The building has been extended one bay to the right, which includes a similar two-light window.
Local climate
The Old School House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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