School and Former Schoolmaster's House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. School. 12 related planning applications.

School and Former Schoolmaster's House

WRENN ID
far-wicket-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 August 1986
Type
School
Address
School and Former Schoolmaster's House, the Cobbles, Nether Peover, WA16 9PZ
OS grid reference
SJ 742 741
Coordinates
53.26351, -2.38705
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building comprises a school and former schoolmaster's house, dating from the 1870s. It is constructed of brown brick and timber framing, with tiled roofs. The school is a long, single-storey building, linked to the schoolmaster's house which projects forward to the left. The school building has a black-and-white end gable and a small cross-gable in the centre of the front, featuring a lateral chimney. It has small-pane, brick-mullioned windows. The schoolmaster's house is of one-and-a-half storeys and includes a recessed porch with a part-glazed door under a pentice roof. There are small-pane, brick-mullioned windows on each side of the porch, and a black-and-white dormer gable. A black-and-white end gable is situated above a ground-floor bay window with a lean-to roof. There is a one-and-a-half storey link connecting the schoolmaster's house to the school building. Other features include one brick chimney behind the ridge and one on the rear slope of the left gable. The interior has not been inspected. The building forms part of an attractive group surrounding the churchyard and is included on the list for its contribution to the group’s character and appearance.

Local climate

School and Former Schoolmaster's House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
  • Related listed building consents — 12 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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