The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Schoolhouse. 1 related planning application.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-moat-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Schoolhouse
- Address
- The Old School House, Whalton Road, Belsay, NE20 0EU
- OS grid reference
- NZ 101 790
- Coordinates
- 55.10568, -1.84243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a former school and schoolmaster's house, now a residential property, believed to have been built in 1841, although a beam inside is dated 1829. It was constructed for Sir Charles Monck and features ashlar stonework with a Welsh slate roof. The building is two stories high with a two-bay arcaded front block and a single-storey former schoolroom at the rear.
The arcade includes a wide elliptical arch on the left and a narrow round-headed arch on the right. Inside the arcade is an original large tripartite sash window with multiple panes. On the first floor, there are three Yorkshire sash windows. The roof is cross-gabled and shallow-pitched, topped with small square end stacks.
On the right side of the building, the narrow end arch of the arcade is on the left, with a wide elliptical arch on the right, which has been filled with 20th-century wood boarding and a small-paned casement window. The former schoolroom is a tall single storey with three 20th-century small-paned casements.
Local climate
The Old School House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 1 application
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