Old Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1969. House, school.

Old Schoolhouse

WRENN ID
broken-clay-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 April 1969
Type
House, school
Address
Old Schoolhouse, Heddon-On-The-Wall
OS grid reference
NZ 126 668
Coordinates
54.99585, -1.80443
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Schoolhouse is a house dating from around 1800, constructed from ashlar stone and topped with a Lakeland slate roof. It has two storeys and features five bays. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door with a six-pane overlight, all set in a raised surround. The ground floor has 24-pane sash windows, while the upper floor has 12-pane sash windows, all also within raised surrounds. The building has a gabled roof with flat coping and banded stacks at both ends and along the ridge. Inside, there are six-panel doors and shutters, with a date of 1814 noted above one internal door. The building was converted into a school in 1824, funded by Mrs. Bewick of Close House.

Local climate

Old Schoolhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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