Schoolhouse and Old School with Attached Wall and Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Schoolhouse.
Schoolhouse and Old School with Attached Wall and Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- vacant-quartz-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Schoolhouse
- OS grid reference
- NU 256 177
- Coordinates
- 55.45336, -1.59584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Schoolhouse and Old School, along with attached walls and outbuildings, is a former school and master's house located in Howick Village. The house dates from the late 18th century and was enlarged with the addition of the school in the mid-19th century. It features squared tooled stone, with 19th-century sections having tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings, and is topped with Welsh slate roofs.
The house is two storeys high with one bay on the left and two bays on the right, the left part being from the 18th century. The right part has a shallow flat-topped porch with a flush-panelled door beneath a cornice in the left bay. The left part has paired 12-pane sash windows on the ground floor, with the right window being a 19th-century addition, and a single similar window above. Both sections have pitched gable copings on moulded kneelers and stepped-and-corniced end stacks.
To the left is a single-storey, three-bay school building featuring paired 12-pane sashes, except for an 8-pane sash in the right end bay. Between the left bays, there is a projecting stepped chimney breast with a stepped-and-corniced stack. The left end gable has pitched coping on moulded kneelers and a corbelled-out bellcote with a shouldered arch above a blind slit, topped with a roll-moulded finial. The far left includes a lower pent porch with a 2-pane sash window and a boarded door leading to the rear.
The left return of the school displays paired 12-pane sashes in stop-chamfered surrounds, while the right return of the house shows 12-pane sashes. The rear elevation features a small yard with a flat-coped wall and a boarded door; a small outbuilding to the right of the yard has small-paned casements in its outer walls. The school has a vertical-panelled door set in a stop-chamfered alternating-block surround.
Historically, Magdalen Grey, who died in 1709, left funds for the maintenance of a school at Howick, which was further endowed by Sir Henry Grey around 1749. It is said that the older part of the house originally housed the schoolroom on the ground floor and the master's dwelling above.
Local climate
Schoolhouse and Old School with Attached Wall and Outbuildings receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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