Cookery Centre at Kingsthorpe Grove Lower School is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1997. School.
Cookery Centre at Kingsthorpe Grove Lower School
- WRENN ID
- seventh-steeple-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Northampton North MP: Lucy Rigby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1997
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- SP 753 627
- Coordinates
- 52.2582, -0.89699
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cookery Centre at Kingsthorpe Grove Lower School is a school building constructed in 1905 by the architectural firm Law and Harris. It is made of red brick with moulded terracotta dressings and features plain tile roofs with coped gables, finials, and a brick stack. The design is in a simplified Flemish renaissance style and is a single storey structure. The front of the building has glazing bar sashes and a central feature that includes three windows with a panel above inscribed "Cookery Centre." This building forms a group with the main part of the school and serves as a notable example of a separate yet integral facility for teaching home economics.
Local climate
Cookery Centre at Kingsthorpe Grove Lower School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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