Old Grammar School is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Education centre. 9 related planning applications.
Old Grammar School
- WRENN ID
- upper-trefoil-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe MP: Jonathan Hinder (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Education centre
- Address
- Old Grammar School, Station Road, Whalley, BB7 9RH
- OS grid reference
- SD 733 364
- Coordinates
- 53.82354, -2.40657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Grammar School is an adult education centre that was originally built as a grammar school in 1725. It was extended in the early 19th century and altered, likely in the mid-to-late 19th century. The building is constructed from sandstone rubble and features a hipped stone slate roof. It has two storeys.
The east facade consists of two bays on either side of a central two-storey gabled porch. The cross windows are rebated and chamfered, and each has a hood. The right-hand ground-floor window has been altered to accommodate a doorway. The porch includes a cross window on the first floor, above which is a blank shield within a plaque. The door surround, which is moulded in a Tudor arch style, dates from the 19th century.
On the left-hand return wall, which faces south, there are five bays with cross windows that have linked hoods. The central bay on the first floor is blank, while the remaining windows on this facade are of an early 19th-century style, featuring sash windows with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds. Inside the building, there are no visible features of architectural interest.
Local climate
Old Grammar School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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