Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Schoolhouse. 1 related planning application.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- final-entrance-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1983
- Type
- Schoolhouse
- Address
- Old School House, Main Road, Dodleston, CH4 9AE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 349 622
- Coordinates
- 53.15322, -2.97356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House, built in 1836, was originally the schoolmaster's house and schoolroom. It is constructed of brick and features a hipped grey slate roof with a central rectangular brick chimney. The building has a symmetrical front that is three storeys high and three windows wide. A projecting gabled porch made of brick has a Tudor arched opening. The front windows are Gothick casements with mock bar-tracery heads, camber arches, and stone cills, while the windows on the sides and rear have been altered. The boarded door has also been changed. At the back, there is a flat-roofed double garage that is not prominent.
Inside, the lower storey includes two large chamfered oak ceiling beams in the back room. In the former schoolroom, a flat ceiling has been added, which is said to conceal unusual trusses.
Local climate
Old School House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 1 application
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