Eccleston Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1987. School, parish hall.
Eccleston Old School
- WRENN ID
- former-cornice-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1987
- Type
- School, parish hall
- Address
- Eccleston Old School, Towngate
- OS grid reference
- SD 518 172
- Coordinates
- 53.64967, -2.72967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eccleston Old School is a small, two-storey building that now serves as a parish hall. It was constructed in 1814, as indicated on a plaque on the first floor. The building is made of coursed squared sandstone and features a low-pitched hipped slate roof without a chimney. It has dressed quoins and primitive Gothic openings.
On the left end, there is a pointed arch doorway with a plain surround, and above it, a squat window of the same shape, which has square casements in the lower part and Y-tracery in the head. To the right, there are two similar windows on each floor, with the ground floor windows positioned slightly higher. All the windows have vertical bars in front of the opening part of the casement.
The plaque between the second and third windows on the first floor reads: "For the Encouragement of useful Learning And For The Promotion of true Religion This BUILDING was erected By Public SUBSCRIPTION An:Dom: 1814."
This building forms a group with Bank House, which is located immediately to the north.
Local climate
Eccleston Old School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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