The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. Former school.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- pale-loggia-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1987
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- The Old School, 1-5, Town Lane, Wooburn
- OS grid reference
- SU 908 877
- Coordinates
- 51.58112, -0.69014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a former school building, converted into five houses, dating from 1852 and altered around 1980. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and features slate roofs, stone coped gables with moulded kneelers, and ornamental gablets. The building has an E-plan layout, with gabled side wings and a small parallel block attached to the central spur. Originally one storey, it now includes an inserted attic storey.
Architectural details include diagonal buttresses and stone mullion windows with pointed arched lights. The main rear range has four bays of two-light windows and 20th-century skylights. The side wings feature tall three-light windows with hoodmoulds that step over a taller central light, and roundels at the apex of each gable. The right wing has a main window divided into two storeys, a large board door on the left side with ornamental hinges, and a shallow porch with a catslide roof supported by shaped stone brackets. This wing also has two gabled semi-dormers with trefoil lights above altered two-light windows, along with a 20th-century lean-to porch at the far end.
The left wing is slightly lower and has a 20th-century lean-to extension to the left with brick dressings and a door on the left side. The small central block is one storey high and features a gabled feature at the centre front with a buttress, flanking lancets, and a blind trefoil inscribed with "Feed my lambs." The link spur has 20th-century doors on each side, with the left door set in an original Caernarvon arch.
Local climate
The Old School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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