De Aston School was founded in 1863 as a small grammar school, as part of a legal settlement following a court case involving funds from the medieval charity of Thomas De Aston, a 14th-century monk.

Until 1995,[3] the school's Foundation Governors also owned the chapel at the site of the charity's Almshouses at Spital-in-the-Street, 10 miles to the west.

The Victorian Gothic red brick house was built in 1863 and was designated as a Grade II listed building by English Heritage in 1984.

As a grammar school it was administered by the Lindsey Education Committee, based in Lincoln, and became co-educational in 1971.

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