The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1975. A Victorian Educational. 1 related planning application.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- twisted-latch-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1975
- Type
- Educational
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- The Old School, War Hill, SK14 6JL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 994 952
- Coordinates
- 53.45409, -2.01002
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a school building dating from 1858, as indicated on the datestone. It is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has a T-shaped plan and consists of one storey plus a basement, designed in the Jacobean style. Notable architectural elements include a projecting plinth, stone quoins, and coped gables. The windows on each side are arranged in groups of 2, 4, and 6 lights, featuring chamfered stone mullions, hoodmoulds, and transoms in the two principal windows. The main entrance door has a chamfered surround with a Tudor-arched head, while the basement door is a re-used element that is considerably older. A ridge chimney stack is present, and a cusped panel in the gable reads "Scholam Grammatican, A.S. MDCXX Benivolentian Roberti Garsett Armig et Ricardi Willbraham Equit Fundatam. Metustate et Incuria Dilapsam Instaurarit Reposuit Restituit Geogius Woodhead Armig A.S. MDCCCLVIII". The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
The Old School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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