Great Hall and Wall of Oundle School is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1974. Great hall. 3 related planning applications.

Great Hall and Wall of Oundle School

WRENN ID
south-gutter-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 June 1974
Type
Great hall
Address
Great Hall and Wall of Oundle School, New Street, PE8 4EA
OS grid reference
TL 040 882
Coordinates
52.48222, -0.46927
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Great Hall and wall of Oundle School, dated 1907 and designed by Arthur Blomfield, is a building in the Perpendicular style. It is constructed of coursed stone with stone dressings and features a stone slate roof. The structure has two storeys and includes two wings, each with two-storey sections that have mullion and transom windows of six lights beneath gables adorned with finials. Rectangular dripmoulds extend as strings, which continue over the cills. The ground floor has four windows of four lights, arranged in pairs with mullions and transoms.

The building has a plinth and angle buttresses at the quoins. There are two-storey canted porches at the angles, topped with crenellated parapets. Above a four-centred doorway with carved spandrels, there is a window of four lights and a three-light rectangular fanlight, along with side lights. The taller central section projects forward and features a moulded gable end with an elaborate double chimney stack.

Two turrets at the angles have crenellated parapets and gargoyle waterspouts at the cornice. The top of the building includes a lantern with single lancet lights on each face and irregular arrow slits. A central figure of Laxton is set in a niche beneath a carved canopy, and there is a large perpendicular window below an ornamented dripmould. Strings are present at the cill and between the storeys, with blank carved arcades below and basement lights. A foundation plaque is also included.

The property features a low stone wall with two sets of gate piers topped with iron finials, which do not have lamps, and iron gates. The design is similar to that of the Blain Building (The Cloisters). All the listed buildings in New Street form a group.

Local climate

Great Hall and Wall of Oundle School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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