The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1986. House.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- scattered-crypt-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old School, Shotley Low Quarter
- OS grid reference
- NZ 060 527
- Coordinates
- 54.86975, -1.90652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a building dating from around 1840, originally constructed as a school and now serving as a house. It is made of roughly-coursed stone with tooled quoins and dressings, topped by a slate roof. The building is single-storey and features three bays. It has large two-light mullioned windows that contain iron-latticed cross casements, along with coped gables and end stacks. To the left, there is a lower porch that includes a 16-pane sash window set in an earlier door opening. The rear elevation displays two similar two-light cross casements. There is a later extension to the north that is not of interest.
Local climate
The Old School receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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