The Original Block at Crosshills School is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1983. School.
The Original Block at Crosshills School
- WRENN ID
- under-parapet-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1983
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Original Block at Crosshills School, Main Road, Bolton-Le-Sands
- OS grid reference
- SD 483 677
- Coordinates
- 54.10281, -2.79081
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The original block at Crosshills School is a school building constructed in 1849. It is made of snecked, squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a slate roof. The facade features a cross-wing on the left side with a gable facing the street, and a lower gabled porch to the right. The gable includes a 6-light mullioned and transomed chamfered window with a hood mould. Above this window is a carved stone tablet with a hood mould that displays the words 'Fear God' on a deeply undercut scroll. Under the apex of the gable, there is a one-light chamfered window. The doorway in the porch has a chamfered surround with a 4-centred head and a hood mould, featuring '1849' on a panel above. The porch also has shaped bargeboards. The right-hand return wall of the porch contains a one-light chamfered window with a hood mould, while the left-hand return wall of the cross-wing has a mullioned and transomed window with a square-sectioned hood mould and a chimney with shaped offsets.
Local climate
The Original Block at Crosshills School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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