Old School and School House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1985. School, school house. 9 related planning applications.
Old School and School House
- WRENN ID
- stark-vault-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1985
- Type
- School, school house
- Address
- Old School and School House, Main Street, Whittington, LA6 2NY
- OS grid reference
- SD 601 761
- Coordinates
- 54.17926, -2.61275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building comprises a former school and school house, dating from 1875 and likely designed by Paley and Austin. It is constructed of snecked limestone rubble with sandstone dressings and a slate roof.
The school, situated to the right, is a single-storey building with an attic. It features mullioned and transomed windows, with rounded heads to the upper lights. A gabled projecting wing is located to the left, featuring two six-light windows separated by a panel of blank tracery. Above the gable’s apex, which includes applied timber decoration and shaped bargeboards, is a two-light mullioned window. The main facade includes windows of six, four, and six lights. A doorway, featuring a moulded surround and shaped lintel inscribed '18 AG 75', is located at the right of the school. The roof on this side is hipped with a gablet. A chimney is situated to the right of the gabled wing. A cupola, originally containing a bell, is on the ridge of the wing, topped with a slated cap and ball finial.
The school house, formerly the schoolmaster's residence, has an upper storey with plaster and applied timber framing, and a hipped roof. A one-bay projection is on the left side. On the ground floor, it has a three-light mullioned window. Above, a timber oriel is carried upwards as a gabled dormer. A slated verandah shelters a stone canted bay window with three mullioned lights. A first-floor window is timber, and of five lights. A door with a moulded surround is to the left of the bay window. Chimneys are on the ridge of the projecting bay and to the right. A lower, one-bay link connects the school house to the school, featuring a three-light timber window on the first floor and a moulded doorway below.
Local climate
Old School and School House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- 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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