The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1983. Former school. 4 related planning applications.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- solitary-flint-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1983
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- The Old School, Newton, BB7 3DY
- OS grid reference
- SD 697 505
- Coordinates
- 53.94994, -2.46172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a former school building dating from 1842. It is constructed of squared watershot sandstone with a slate roof. The building is one storey and four bays wide, with projecting furrowed quoins. The stone window surrounds are chamfered, featuring chamfered central mullions and hoods. Original diagonal iron glazing bars remain in the windows, with the exception of the left-hand lights in bays 3 and 4. A steep gable with coping and a stone bellcote is centrally positioned on the façade, beneath which is a door with a chamfered stone surround. An inscribed plaque above the door reads: 'NEWTON NATIONAL SCHOOL ERECTED A.D. 1842'. The left-hand gable has a coping and an octagonal chimney cap.
Local climate
The Old School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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 — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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