Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. School, house.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- empty-flint-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- Chorley MP: Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Spk)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1984
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- Old School House, Old School Lane, Adlington
- OS grid reference
- SD 595 123
- Coordinates
- 53.60589, -2.61336
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House, dated 1815, is a former school and house now functioning as a single residence. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with stone quoins and a stone slate roof, featuring one brick chimney on the left gable and two on the right gable. The building has a square plan with two rooms on each floor and stands two storeys tall with a symmetrical façade.
At the centre of the front, there are two adjacent round-headed doorways with plain jambs and small keystones, which have blocked fanlights above. Each side of the doorways has one round-headed casement window at ground level, while ordinary casements are located above them on the first floor. A rectangular stone tablet with incised lettering is positioned in the centre of the first floor, stating: "This School for pious and useful learning Was built by voluntary subscription In the Year of our Lord 1815 R.P.B."
The left half of the building served as the school, while the right half was the master's house. The left gable wall features two round-headed casement windows on each floor, and both gable walls have a tall arched recess at the first floor, which is now rendered. The rear wall includes a round-headed window at ground level on the left half, three additional casement windows, and a modern glazed porch.
Local climate
Old School House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% 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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