Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. School, house. 4 related planning applications.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- vast-rafter-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- Old School House, High Street, Pytchley, NN14 1EN
- OS grid reference
- SP 858 746
- Coordinates
- 52.36333, -0.741
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a house that has been converted into a school. It dates from the mid-18th century, with some additions made in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings and features a hipped Welsh slate roof. It has a chamfered plinth, sill and first floor bands, rusticated quoins, and keystoned heads above the main openings. There are two side wall stacks and a single gable coped brick stack. The structure is two storeys high and consists of five bays.
The south front has a projecting three-bay center that includes a moulded ashlar doorcase with a pulvinated frieze, two-leaf fielded panelled doors, and an overlight. This is flanked by round-headed sash windows and, to the left, a flat-headed sash window. Above the door, there is a segmental-headed sash window with a Gibbs surround and a dummy balustrade, with two 18th and 19th-century sashes on either side, although the far-right sash is blocked. Each end of the building features a central round-headed blank recess, flanked by flat-headed recesses.
The rear elevation, facing the street, has a projecting center with a pilastered and corniced wooden doorcase, a four-panelled door, and an overlight. The fenestration is regular, with glazing bar sashes, four of which are blocked. The two-storey mid-19th-century addition at the southeast corner is not considered to have special architectural interest.
Local climate
Old School House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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