Saint Martin's School the Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1976. School.
Saint Martin's School the Old School House
- WRENN ID
- waning-bastion-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Altrincham and Sale West MP: Mr Connor Rand (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1976
- Type
- School
- Address
- Saint Martin's School the Old School House, Green Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 774 924
- Coordinates
- 53.42874, -2.34156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Saint Martin's School and The Old School House is a building complex dating from 1874, with the tower added in 1877. Designed by W. Brakspear for Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, it is built in a Free Gothic style using header bond brick, stone dressings, and slate roofs. The school is a T-shaped, single-storey structure with seven by four bays, featuring a corner clock tower and an adjoining two-storey schoolmaster's house.
The school has a projecting plinth, a sill band, a decorative applied timber eaves band, a steeply pitched roof, coped gables with kneelers, and triangular roof vents. Each bay contains a two-light stone-dressed mullion window with a heavy transom. The clock tower is a prominent feature on the street, complete with a commemorative stone plaque, stone quoins and bands, an open belfry, a pyramidal roof, and a weather vane.
The three-bay schoolmaster's house is connected to the school by an elaborate arched entrance with a foundation stone above. It shares similar architectural details with the school, but features cusped window heads, a picturesque porch, a dormer window, polychromatic relieving arches, and crested ridge tiles.
Local climate
Saint Martin's School the Old School House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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