St Mary's Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1983. School.
St Mary's Old School
- WRENN ID
- lunar-frieze-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1983
- Type
- School
- Address
- St Mary's Old School, Windy Street, Chipping
- OS grid reference
- SD 623 432
- Coordinates
- 53.88368, -2.57408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St. Mary's Old School is a Catholic school built in the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of squared, coursed sandstone and features a hipped slate roof. The building is one storey high with a cellar located under the north-east end. The north-west wall consists of four bays, with windows that have plain stone surrounds, semi-circular heads, projecting keystones, and are fitted with sashed glazing bars. The north-east wall includes a plain stone door surround leading to the cellar, along with two windows above that have plain stone surrounds and top-opening casements with glazing bars. The south-west wall features a plain stone door surround, a hipped projection at the north end, and windows with plain reveals.
Local climate
St Mary's 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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