Main Block of Secondary Modern School for Girls is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1976. School.

Main Block of Secondary Modern School for Girls

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 April 1976
Type
School
Address
Main Block of Secondary Modern School for Girls, Rockingham Road
OS grid reference
SP 866 792
Coordinates
52.40442, -0.72721
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The main block of the Secondary Modern School for Girls was built in 1893 in an original variant of the Carolean style by J A Gotch. It features a symmetrical front made of red brick with stone dressings and has hipped and gabled machine tiled roofs. The building is primarily one storey, but the centre rises to two storeys and includes a campanile tower with arched panels at the top stage, topped by a tall roof with a segmental pediment at the front. The centre is recessed, with gables at the centres of the wings. The window arrangement consists of 4:5:4, with casements and sashes set under flat and segmental arches that have keystones. The central doorway is adorned with a segmental pediment supported by long carved consoles. The north elevation features a projecting centre with a window arrangement of 5:12:7.

Local climate

Main Block of Secondary Modern School for Girls 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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