Old Grammar School House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. Grammar school, house. 1 related planning application.
Old Grammar School House
- WRENN ID
- distant-cloister-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Grammar school, house
- Address
- Old Grammar School House, Croughton Road, Aynho, OX17 3BE
- OS grid reference
- SP 515 332
- Coordinates
- 51.9952, -1.25109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Grammar School House is a grammar school that has been converted into a house, dating from 1671 as noted on a sundial. The building is constructed of squared uncoursed limestone with ironstone quoins and features a stone tile roof with coped gables and kneelers, along with stone chimneys. It has an L-plan layout, comprising two storeys, an attic, and a cellar, with a total of seven bays.
The main entrance is located in the second bay from the left and features a stone doorway with a 4-centred arch and a square hood that has lozenge-shaped stops, leading to a six-panel door. There is a similar doorway, which is blocked, in the third bay from the right. The left bay on both the ground and first floors has modern three-light stone mullioned and transomed windows, while the other windows are two-light stone mullions, some of which have been renewed, all with a continuous hood on both floors. A stone sundial is located in the third bay from the right on the first floor.
At the rear, there is a 17th-century gabled wing that is one bay wide and two storeys tall, featuring two-light stone mullioned windows with square hoods. Inside, the building has moulded beams and stone square-headed doorways, along with a 17th-century stone fireplace in the hall that has a 4-centred arch and a moulded entablature.
Local climate
Old Grammar School House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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