The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the South Ribble local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1984. School house.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-vault-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ribble
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1984
- Type
- School house
- Address
- The Old School House, School Lane, Farington
- OS grid reference
- SD 552 249
- Coordinates
- 53.71879, -2.6801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a school house dated 1690, although it is said to have been built in 1673. It has been converted into a house. The building is constructed of pebble dashed brick and features a stone slate roof with gable chimneys. It consists of two bays and is two storeys high, with later extensions added at the rear. The front of the ground floor has a modern flat-roofed extension, while the first floor has two three-light casement windows. At the left end of the first floor, there is a large datestone inscribed in relief with the names:
ANDREW . DANDY MARGARET . DANDY
WILLIAM . DANDY ANDREW . DANDY DANIEL . DANDY ANNODOMINI . 1690
The right return wall features a partly external chimney and a blocked former doorway with a canopy beside it. The rear of the building has been altered. An adjoining house is located at the left end, but it is not included in this listing. Inside, the first floor has an exposed cambered tie beam with a stopped chamfer.
Local climate
The Old School House 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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