Former School Attached to Former Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. School.
Former School Attached to Former Chapel
- WRENN ID
- ruined-lantern-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- NZ 074 372
- Coordinates
- 54.73044, -1.88589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former school, now used as classrooms and a hall, which was constructed in 1856. It features rubble walls with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof that has low ridge ventilators. The structure is one storey high and consists of five bays, with a pent extension on the right front. The second bay has a boarded door with a two-pane overlight above it, while the other bays contain 16-pane sash windows that are topped with flat stone lintels and have projecting stone sills. This building is included in the heritage listing for its group value with the former chapel it is attached to.
Local climate
Former School Attached to Former Chapel receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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