The School House and Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1985. School. 1 related planning application.

The School House and Garden Wall

WRENN ID
graven-eave-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Derbyshire Dales
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1985
Type
School
Address
The School House and Garden Wall, Long Lane, Alkmonton, DE6 3DH
OS grid reference
SK 186 385
Coordinates
52.94385, -1.72338
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The School House and Garden Wall is a former school and schoolmaster's house, now a residential property, built in 1856 with 20th-century additions for Thomas Evans. The building is constructed of red brick with brick dressings and features a plain tile roof with overhanging eaves. It has brick gable end and side wall stacks, along with a small bracketed timber bellcote topped with a tiled roof on the west gable. The structure is two storeys high with a single storey, forming a roughly T-plan layout that includes a two-bay house to the east and a two-bay school room at right angles.

A gabled 20th-century porch with a cambered headed doorcase is located at the front of the 20th-century single bay addition. The school room to the west has two 3-light casement windows featuring diamond metal lights, set under cambered heads with chamfered brick jambs. The west gable wall includes a larger 3-light transomed window under a similar cambered head, above which is a clock face. Adjacent to the 20th-century addition is the schoolmaster's house, which has a 2-light casement window under a cambered head with chamfered jambs, and a similar window above, along with a blocked ventilation slit in the gable. The east facade also features similar 2-light windows.

Surrounding the house is a brick garden wall to the north and west, which has triangular sectioned stone copings and stone gate piers. Notably, there are vitrified headers in the curve of the wall that inscribe 'TWE 1856' as it changes direction. The building is included for its group value only.

Local climate

The School House and Garden Wall 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 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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