The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1983. Former school. 3 related planning applications.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- sharp-thatch-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1983
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- The Old School, Main Street, Westbury, NN13 5JR
- OS grid reference
- SP 622 359
- Coordinates
- 52.01815, -1.09483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a former school and schoolmaster's house, marked by a date plaque that reads "National 1861 Schools." The building is constructed of rubble stone with stone dressings and features a steeply pitched tiled roof. The north wing projects and has a gabled front facing the street, which includes a 3-light window with stone mullions and a transom, along with a clock and the date plaque. The south wing, which houses the living quarters, is a single storey and has two paired casement windows in a hipped dormer. There is also one paired casement window on the ground floor, accompanied by a boarded door to the right. The east and south walls are adorned with a verandah that has a lean-to tiled roof supported by wooden posts and brackets, which is gabled over the ground floor window.
Local climate
The Old School 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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