The Old School and Attached School House is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1982. School, house. 3 related planning applications.
The Old School and Attached School House
- WRENN ID
- second-column-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1982
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- The Old School and Attached School House, Thorpe Achurch, PE8 5SL
- OS grid reference
- TL 022 830
- Coordinates
- 52.43554, -0.49692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School and attached School House is a disused building from the mid-19th century, constructed from squared coursed limestone and yellow brick. It has a T-shaped plan, with the school being a single-storey structure and the house being two-storey. The main front features three bays, with the left bay serving as the former school room, which projects forward as a gabled cross wing. This bay includes a four-light stone mullion window with a transom. The two bays to the left comprise the schoolmaster's house, which has a three-light stone mullion window on the ground floor to the right and a similar two-light window on the first floor, topped with a gablet. The central door from the 19th century has a four-centred arch head and a chamfered stone surround. The building features an ashlar gable parapet and stone stacks at each end, with tall, diagonal brick flues. There is a single-storey extension attached to the left and a lean-to extension at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old School and Attached School House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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