The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1968. Educational. 6 related planning applications.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- inner-hearth-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1968
- Type
- Educational
- Address
- The Old School House, the Green, Badby, NN11 3AF
- OS grid reference
- SP 560 591
- Coordinates
- 52.228, -1.18106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a house that was formerly a village school, built around 1812 by James Wyatt for the Dowager Lady Knightley. It is constructed from coursed squared ironstone and features slate roofs with stone internal stacks. The building has a T-plan layout and is two storeys high, with a central one-window section flanked by symmetrical one-storey and attic wings that each have two windows.
The entrance features a Gothick panelled door set in a chamfered stone surround with a four-centred head, located within a one-storey porch that has a chamfered doorway and a four-centred head with a hood mould. Above the entrance, the first-floor window is a two-light leaded window with a pointed head, Y-tracery, a transom, and a hood mould with label stops, flanked by blank shields. The building has a plain stone coped parapet with a string course below. The wings contain stone mullion and transom windows with diamond-pane leaded lights and hood moulds, and the gables are stone coped with kneelers. There is a 20th-century rear extension, and the interior includes a bread oven.
Local climate
The Old School House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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