The School House (West Bretton Primary School) is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. School.

The School House (West Bretton Primary School)

WRENN ID
night-bailey-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
Country
England
Type
School
Address
The School House (West Bretton Primary School), Huddersfield Road
OS grid reference
SE 286 138
Coordinates
53.62057, -1.56778
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The School House, also known as West Bretton Primary School, is a school house built in the late 18th century or early 19th century, with some alterations. It is constructed of red brick and features a stone slate roof. The building has a symmetrical facade with a three-bay gabled center section flanked by lower three-bay side wings. It stands two stories tall, with single-storey wings.

The central bay is highlighted by a round-arched sunk panel, and there is a doorway located to the right. The tall windows have 20th-century casements and are topped with brick flat arches. Originally, the doorway was positioned in the center. There are shorter first-floor windows on the left and right, set on a sill band at the impost level of the arch. The facade is completed with a bracketed pediment made of brick and slightly projecting lateral stacks. The left wing contains a blind center window, while a 20th-century addition to the right wing is not considered of special interest.

At the rear, the main range features a pediment similar to the front, along with a round-arched stair window to the left and a small single-storey addition to the main range. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The School House (West Bretton Primary School) receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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