The School Room is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. School.
The School Room
- WRENN ID
- sombre-tower-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1967
- Type
- School
- Address
- The School Room, Bridge Street, King's Cliffe, PE8 6XH
- OS grid reference
- TL 010 970
- Coordinates
- 52.56218, -0.51136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School Room is a disused school building located on Bridge Street in Kings Cliffe, dated 1749, founded by Elizabeth Hutcheson. It is constructed of squared coursed limestone with an ashlar facade and consists of a single-storey, single-unit schoolroom. The building features a two-window range of leaded cross-windows, some of which retain original glass, set under gauged stone heads with keyblocks. The central entrance has a four-panel door with a similar stone head above it. The gable parapets and kneelers are made of ashlar, and there is an ashlar stack at the right end. Above the door, there are two stone panels in the fanlight space; one bears the inscription "Deo Adjuvante," and the other displays the date. Inside, there is a dado with a moulded rail, an attached master's seat, and four children's seats, along with a sawn-off stump of four additional seats that has the inscription "WD 1779." The school was originally established in 1745 for 18 boys.
Local climate
The School Room 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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