The School House is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. School, house. 1 related planning application.
The School House
- WRENN ID
- nether-corridor-ochre
- 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, house
- Address
- The School House, 22, Bridge Street, King's Cliffe, PE8 6XH
- OS grid reference
- TL 009 970
- Coordinates
- 52.562, -0.51184
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House is a building that was originally a school and schoolhouse, now converted into a house. It has a datestone from 1752, indicating a rebuilding, although it was founded as a school in 1727 by William Law. The structure is made of squared coursed limestone and features a Collyweston slate roof. It is likely that the original layout was a two-unit plan, with the school room occupying most of the upper storey.
The building has two storeys and a four-window range of leaded cross windows, which are set under wooden lintels and have ashlar dressings. There is a small circular window on the first floor to the left. A six-panel door, located to the right of centre, is also under a wooden lintel. The gable ends have ashlar parapets and stone stacks. Above the door, there is a panel with the inscription "Charitati Sacrum 1752".
Attached to the right is a one-bay outbuilding, which is now part of the house and features a plank door to the left. This outbuilding also has ashlar gable parapets and a lateral stone stack. The rear elevation includes a central leaded casement window under a wooden lintel, while the gable end facing Bridge Street is blank. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to have a fielded panelled screen beside the staircase, a cupboard under the stairs with a wooden ventilation grille, and splat balusters leading to the first-floor landing.
Local climate
The 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 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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