St Johns Church Hall/The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Sheffield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1992. Church hall. 1 related planning application.
St Johns Church Hall/The Old School
- WRENN ID
- floating-hearth-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sheffield
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1992
- Type
- Church hall
- Address
- St Johns Church Hall/The Old School, Loundside, Ecclesfield
- OS grid reference
- SK 352 966
- Coordinates
- 53.46516, -1.47031
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John's Church Hall, also known as The Old School, is a former school and school house that has been converted into a church hall. It was built in 1844 and has undergone some 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed from coursed dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs with coped gables and kneelers. It has a chamfered plinth and flushed ashlar quoins.
The south-west street front includes an added gable porch with a double chamfered entrance arch that has a hood mould. Above this porch is a gabled turret with set-offs and a central pointed arch. On either side of the turret are single 4-light mullion windows, which now contain 20th-century wooden casements. To the south-east, there is a 3-light pointed arch window with reticulated tracery, beyond which is a lower school room that features a 4-light graduated window within a pointed arch on the north-east side.
To the north-west, there is another 3-light pointed arch window with reticulated tracery, and above it is a gabled bellcove with a cusped bell-opening. The north side of the building contains a parish room with a gabled north-west front, featuring a pointed arched doorway with a chamfered surround and hood mould, as well as a 3-light graduated window within a pointed arch above it.
At the rear, the former school-house range has a single gable stack and both a single and a triple ridge stack, all of which are octagonal with crenellated tops. The two-storey section includes an off-centre doorway with an overlight, a 2-light mullion window to the left, and to the right, a former 2-light mullion window that has been replaced with a 20th-century casement, followed by a triangular headed doorway. Above this section is another 2-light mullion window and a through-eaves gabled dormer with a 2-light mullion window. The single-storey range to the north-east features a 3-light mullion window, which now has a 20th-century casement.
Local climate
St Johns Church Hall/The Old School receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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