Formerly The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. School. 2 related planning applications.

Formerly The Old School

WRENN ID
south-wattle-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Type
School
Address
Formerly The Old School, Old School East and Old School West, the Butts, Warkworth, NE65 0SP
OS grid reference
NU 249 061
Coordinates
55.34853, -1.60873
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The building, formerly known as The Old School, is a former National School founded in 1824 and extended in 1852 with additional school rooms for infants and girls. It is constructed of roughly-squared stone with cut quoins and dressings, topped by a Welsh slate roof featuring red ridge tiles. The building has a cruciform plan and is designed in the Tudor style. It is a single-storey structure with a layout of 1 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 1 bays.

The projecting gabled center has a chamfered plinth and a five-light window with a hoodmould that steps up over the taller central light, with a slit window above. There is a stepped-and-corniced stack on the left return. The flanking sections feature central stepped stacks, with the upper parts rebuilt, and are interspersed with pairs of two- and three-light mullioned windows. The left end includes a corbelled-out gabled bellcote with a pointed arch and a moulded finial.

At each end of the building, there are lower porches with vertical-panelled doors beneath flat-pointed heads, framed within square surrounds and featuring hoodmoulds. The main part has twin slit windows in the gables, while the porches have single slit windows. All windows are 12-pane sashes, and all openings are set in recessed and chamfered surrounds. The gables are coped and supported on moulded kneelers. It is noted that the fenestration at the rear has been altered.

Local climate

Formerly The Old School receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 2 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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