Old Village School House is a Grade II listed building in the Doncaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1959. A Late 17th Century School house, youth club. 3 related planning applications.

Old Village School House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Doncaster
Constituency
Doncaster North MP: Ed Miliband (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 December 1959
Type
School house, youth club
Period
Late 17th Century
Address
Old Village School House, High Street, DN5 0SE
OS grid reference
SE 578 068
Coordinates
53.55533, -1.12764
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Village School House, built in 1683, is now a youth club and was previously listed as the Village School. It was commissioned by Sir George Cooke, who left funds for its construction. The building is made of rubble magnesian limestone and has a Welsh slate roof. It is a single-storey structure with five bays and a wing at the rear right. The building features large quoins and a blocked central doorway that has a bolection-moulded surround, a pulvinated frieze, and a broken segmental pediment that once included a cartouche in the tympanum. The other bays contain tall two-light mullioned windows with 20th-century casements and trefoil-head lights beneath square heads, all framed by recessed, chamfered surrounds. A continuous cyma-moulded dripmould runs along the top, and the building has shaped kneelers and triangular gable copings. Tall rendered stacks with cornices are located at each end. The rear of the building has one window similar to the front, but otherwise has been altered; the wing on the left features a five-light window on its return and a tall external stack at the angle with the main range.

Local climate

Old Village School House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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