School and Attached Wall is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. School. 2 related planning applications.
School and Attached Wall
- WRENN ID
- hollow-gateway-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- School
- Address
- School and Attached Wall, Grafton Road, Geddington, NN14 1AJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 895 829
- Coordinates
- 52.43747, -0.68461
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a school dating from 1849, with later alterations and extensions. Constructed from coursed limestone rubble with a Collyweston stone slate roof, it features coped gables with shaped kneelers. Original iron ridge ventilators are present – two on the main block and one on each rear wing. A moulded stone ridge stack is on the rear wing, along with a later, rendered lateral stack.
The symmetrical main block has a window of 3 cusped lights, mirroring the clerestory of the nearby church, and a window of 2 cusped lights on either side. The original central gabled porch, with twin entrances, has been replaced by a 20th-century door with an overlight. A flat-topped dormer sits to the left of centre above. The right gable end, facing the street, includes two buttresses, a modified 20th-century window, and an oculus above.
The original porch to the rear wing, seemingly built into the right side of the gable end, has a coped gable and a plain board door with decorative hinges, featuring an arched head with a hood mould. The original rear wing has two windows each of 2 cusped lights and a gable end similar to the main block. A rendered addition with a hipped roof wraps around a corner. A lower, rendered, flat-roofed addition extends to the rear.
The playground wall, constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, has a plinth and shaped coping. The interior has not been inspected. The building is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
School and Attached Wall 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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