The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. School.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- pale-footing-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School, Weekley
- OS grid reference
- SP 887 808
- Coordinates
- 52.41853, -0.696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a building that was originally a school and is now a house. It dates back to 1624 and was extended in the 19th century. The structure is made of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a Collyweston stone slate roof. The original block has a coped gable with ball finials and a moulded stone end stack from the 19th-century addition. It is a single-storey building with quoins.
The entrance is located on the left side of the original block, featuring a door made of three wide boards set in a moulded stone architrave, which may have been reset. Above the door is a tablet inscribed with: "A . FREE . SCHOOLE . FOR / WEEKLEY . AND . WRECKTON / FOUNDED BY . NICOLAS . LATHAM / CLERKE . PARSON . OF . BARNEWELL / S . ANDREW TO . TEACH . THEIRE / CHILDREN . TO . WRITE . AND . READE / ANNO DOMINI : 1624". To the right of the entrance is a four-light stone-mullioned window that has an ovolo moulding, a king mullion, and a casement-moulded cornice.
The rest of the original front is altered by the addition, but there are three-light stone-mullioned windows with cornices at the gable ends—ovolo-moulded on the north side and chamfered on the south. The 19th-century wing has an ovolo-moulded window on the north side and a chamfered window on the south. The projecting wing towards the street features a three-light chamfered mullioned window with a transom and cornice in the gable end, along with two three-light chamfered mullioned windows with cornices on the south flank. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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