Old Grammar School and Attached Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Ribble local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1951. Grammar school, cottage. 1 related planning application.

Old Grammar School and Attached Cottage

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Ribble
Constituency
South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 July 1951
Type
Grammar school, cottage
Address
Old Grammar School and Attached Cottage, Church Road, PR25 3FJ
OS grid reference
SD 541 216
Coordinates
53.68887, -2.69532
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Grammar School and attached cottage, dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with the cottage dated 1790, is now a museum located at the corner of the churchyard. The building is constructed of brick with a stone plinth and quoins, topped with a slate roof. It features a gable chimney at the left end and a very large external chimney stack at the right end, which has scored rendering. The school building is rectangular, consisting of four bays and two storeys, while the attached cottage at the southeast corner is one bay and two storeys. The west wall of the school is slightly stepped and includes some quoins in the centre. There are five ground floor windows, each with three lights, featuring rendered brick mullions and segmental brick heads. The first floor has three windows with five, four, and four lights, all with rendered brick mullions, and similar windows can be found on the rear wall. The current entrance is through the cottage door at the south end, which has a lintel inscribed "By the liberal Contributions of the Gentlemen of this Parish and others in the year 1790." Inside, the floor level has been recently lowered by excavation, and the ground floor room contains five chamfered beams, two of which have arch-bracing to wooden corbels, along with significant evidence of internal timber framing.

Local climate

Old Grammar School and Attached Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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