Quernmore Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. School. 1 related planning application.

Quernmore Old School

WRENN ID
stubborn-cinder-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 March 1985
Type
School
OS grid reference
SD 518 584
Coordinates
54.01979, -2.7364
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Quernmore Old School is a former school and Sunday school, now disused, built in 1850 with some remains from the late 17th century. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof. It is a single-storey structure. The north front has one bay on each side of a gabled porch, which includes windows with plain reveals, pointed heads, and glazing bars. The porch itself has a small window with a plain stone surround on the front wall and a doorway with long-and-short jambs and a stone lintel on the right-hand return wall. To the right of the right-hand window, there is a plaque that reads: 'This school was rebuilt by subscription 1850'. A chimney is located on the left-hand gable, and a ball finial is present on the right-hand gable. The right-hand (west) gable wall features a tall window with a plain stone surround. The rear wall has four 2-light mullioned windows, with the two left-hand ones being rebated and chamfered, while the right-hand ones are chamfered. Inside, one roof truss is made of softwood, while the other is reused and includes a collar and raking queen struts.

Local climate

Quernmore Old School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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