The School is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1985. A Victorian School. 1 related planning application.
The School
- WRENN ID
- ruined-gutter-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Altrincham and Sale West MP: Mr Connor Rand (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1985
- Type
- School
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- The School, Dunham Road, Warburton, WA13 9UZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 711 892
- Coordinates
- 53.39903, -2.43604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School is now a house, built in 1871-2. Designed by John Douglas, it is constructed of Flemish bond brick with stone and terracotta dressings, and has a clay tile roof. The original schoolroom was open to the roof, but has since been floored over as part of the conversion to a house. It includes a rear wing and a porch on the left. The main facade has three bays, featuring a projecting chimneystack between the first and second bays with decorative brick shafts set diagonally. Seven-light mullion windows in moulded terracotta are present on either side. A dormer gable in the second bay contains a three-light mullion window and a lozenge-shaped gable decoration. A twentieth-century patio window has been inserted into the third bay, and another is present at the rear. The hipped porch has a hipped bellcote on the gable of the main roof. The interior, although largely altered, retains two pairs of truncated crucks that support the roof, along with cruck spurs supporting the wallplate and a collar beam the purlins – an unusual revival of an early building technique.
Local climate
The School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2015
- 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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