The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1952. House.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- lone-lime-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old School House, Heath Common, Warmfield Cum Heath
- OS grid reference
- SE 357 200
- Coordinates
- 53.67561, -1.45962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is an endowment school and attached Master's house, now a residential property, dating from around 1660 with alterations made around 1751 when the schoolmaster's house was added. The building is constructed of large, well-coursed gritstone, with the addition being punch-dressed, and features a stone-slate roof. The single-storey school section has a two-storey master's cottage. It has quoins and a three-bay facade with a central doorway that has double tie-stone jambs and a deep Tudor-arched lintel with a chamfered surround. On either side of the doorway are three-light double-chamfered mullioned-and-transomed windows. The gables are coped with kneelers.
To the right, the Master's house has a doorway with a monolithic lintel to the left of a window that also has a monolithic lintel and a projecting sill, featuring small-paned glazing and a smaller window above. At the rear, there is a chamfered cross-window to the left of two sash windows, which have lintels and projecting sills. The left-hand return, facing the Common, has a large 20-pane sash window with raised plain-stone surrounds.
Inside, the building has been altered for use as a dwelling. One pane of glass is scratched with the name "Mary Wynn 1751". The interior features three king-post trusses with angle-struts.
The foundation was endowed by Lady Bolles of Heath Old Hall, who provided £25.12.6 annually for a schoolmaster and usher at the "lately built school in Heath."
Local climate
The Old School House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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