The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. School, house. 2 related planning applications.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- burning-foundation-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- The Old School House, the Green, Culworth, OX17 2BB
- OS grid reference
- SP 543 470
- Coordinates
- 52.11885, -1.20721
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a building that was originally constructed as a school in 1789 for Lady Merial D'Anvers. It is made of ironstone ashlar and features a slate roof with flanking stone stacks. The structure has two storeys and an attic, arranged in four bays. The central doorway has a stone lintel and a four-panel part-glazed door with an overlight above it. On either side of the door, there are two sash windows with side lights and stone lintels. The first floor has three-light windows with stone lintels, old iron casements, and leaded panes. The gable ends are coped and include kneelers. At the center of the roof, there is an octagonal timber bell turret topped with a cupola and a weather vane. The interior has not been inspected. It was noted by D. Knowles that there was a stone on the west gable marked 'H. Ward, 1789', presumably indicating the builder, although this stone is no longer visible.
Local climate
The Old School House 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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