Old School at Rear of Number 65 (Sweetbriar Hall) is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1978. School.
Old School at Rear of Number 65 (Sweetbriar Hall)
- WRENN ID
- weathered-gallery-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich MP: Connor Naismith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1978
- Type
- School
- Address
- Old School at Rear of Number 65 (Sweetbriar Hall), Hospital Street, Nantwich
- OS grid reference
- SJ 653 522
- Coordinates
- 53.06637, -2.51837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School at the rear of Number 65 (Sweetbriar Hall) dates from around 1701. It is built of red brick and has two storeys. The building features two sash windows, with the left window having two lights. There is a moulded wood doorcase topped with a pedimental weather-hood, leading to a six-panelled fielded door. The eaves are toothed, and the roof is hipped and covered with slate. Inside, the upper room retains its original plain fireplace. This building was once the home of Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen, but it has been long unoccupied and is now in a dilapidated state.
Local climate
Old School at Rear of Number 65 (Sweetbriar Hall) receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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