The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. School, church. 3 related planning applications.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- plain-obsidian-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- School, church
- Address
- The Old School, Woodcroft Road, Wylam, NE41 8DQ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 113 645
- Coordinates
- 54.97559, -1.82416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School, originally the colliery school and now Wylam Assembly Church, was built in 1854. It features an ashlar exterior and a Welsh slate roof, and is designed in an L-shape over two storeys. The long arm of the L has two irregularly placed 12-pane sash windows on each floor. The projecting wing to the right has one 12-pane sash window on each floor and a small 6-pane staircase window. All windows have alternating block jambs and slightly projecting sills. There is one door located in a later random rubble porch at the angle of the L, and another door on the right return.
The building has gabled roofs with flat coping and kneelers, as well as stone corniced end stacks on the rear wing and a lateral stack on the projecting wing. A dated gabled bellcote is situated on the gable of the projecting wing. The Old School is noted for its historical significance as an example of educational service to the colliery community.
Local climate
The Old School 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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