Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1981. School.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- long-gargoyle-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1981
- Type
- School
- Address
- Old School House, Station Road, Thurstaston, CH61 0HL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 246 841
- Coordinates
- 53.34893, -3.13399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House, formerly known as the Former Thurstaston School, is a former school building dating from around 1858 to 1859. It is constructed of snecked stone and originally had a slate roof, which was stripped in 1985. The building is one storey high with four bays, while the first bay is two storeys and projects under a gable that features a porch and a bell cote to the right.
The windows, which were possibly originally mullioned, currently lack frames due to restoration work. The building has weathered buttresses, and the first bay includes a ground floor window with a label mould that features foliate decoration and the letter "N." Above, there is a first-floor window with two segmental-pointed lights and a mullion. The porch has a buttress on the return side, and its segmental-pointed entrance is adorned with a hood mould that has lozenge stops. The door features elaborate hinges and a lozenge above it. The bell cote is topped with a corbelled cornice, and there are cross-axial stacks at the gable end and first bay.
Local climate
Old School House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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