Bliss Charity School School House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. School, school-house. 1 related planning application.
Bliss Charity School School House
- WRENN ID
- plain-brass-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- School, school-house
- Address
- Bliss Charity School School House, 2, Middle Street, Nether Heyford
- OS grid reference
- SP 660 585
- Coordinates
- 52.2209, -1.03405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bliss Charity School and School House is a school building constructed in 1879, with later 19th and 20th century extensions designed by the office of E.F. Law. The structure is made of coursed squared ironstone with ironstone dressings and features a plain-tile roof with a stone ridge, along with lateral and internal stacks. It is designed in the Victorian Gothic style and has an H-plan layout. The building is two stories tall and has a six-window range.
To the left of the center, there is a gabled porch that includes a plank door with ornamental hinges, a stone lintel, and small one-light windows above, all set within a moulded pointed arched surround with a hood mould. The ground floor features four-light stone mullion windows and hipped dormers. The building has projecting cross wings at either end, with the left wing serving as the school house. This wing has a bay window at the ground floor of the gable end, a four-light stone mullion and transom window, and a circular sexfoiled window above, flanked by small circular windows at the base, all with a hood mould and carved label stops.
A circular datestone on the gable is inscribed with "BLISS/ENDOWED SCHOOLS/FOUNDED AD 1673/REBUILT 1879" and features a hood mould. There is a Caernarvon-arched door on the inner side, and a similar doorway is located on the left side elevation of the school house wing, as well as on the wall connecting the school-room wing to the adjacent Heyford Cottage on the right. The building also has a chamfered plinth, a sill band, stone-coped gables with kneelers and ball finials, and a square bell-turret with a pyramidal roof at the ridge of the right wing. The school is included for its group value.
Local climate
Bliss Charity School 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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