The Old Schoolroom is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1968. Schoolroom. 1 related planning application.
The Old Schoolroom
- WRENN ID
- slow-fireplace-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1968
- Type
- Schoolroom
- Address
- The Old Schoolroom, Church Lane, South Hiendley
- OS grid reference
- SE 387 126
- Coordinates
- 53.60869, -1.41628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Schoolroom is a building that now serves as a parish room, likely dating from the 16th century. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone and has a stone slate roof. The building has a rectangular single-cell plan and is a single storey. The symmetrical two-bay south front features a central moulded Tudor-arched doorway with a board door that has ornamental strap hinges. There are two buttresses flanking the doorway, and each bay contains a recessed mullioned window with five Tudor-arched lights, hollow spandrels, and a hoodmould. An external chimney stack is located at the left gable, which is embraced by a low added outbuilding. The rear wall has two inserted three-light casement windows. The interior has been altered, with the roof concealed by a ceiling. Historically, Prudence, the wife of Richard Berrie and niece of Sir Richard Gargrave of Kinsley, endowed the school in the mid-17th century, and it was mentioned in 1660 as a free school for the manor of Havercroft.
Local climate
The Old Schoolroom receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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