The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1974. School house. 1 related planning application.

The Old School House

WRENN ID
hollow-foundation-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
High Peak
Constituency
High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 May 1974
Type
School house
Address
The Old School House, Highgate Road, Hayfield, SK22 2JL
OS grid reference
SK 037 867
Coordinates
53.37774, -1.94436
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old School House is a former school house that was converted into a house around 1830. It is constructed of coursed gritstone with flush gritstone dressings and features a stone slate roof with stone gable end stacks. The building is two storeys high.

On the north elevation, there are two doorways that have large stone surrounds. Each doorway is flanked by 20th-century glazing bar sash windows, which are set beneath heavy stone lintels and have projecting sills. Above these doorways, there are six additional 20th-century glazing bar sash windows. The west gable features a wide doorcase with a rusticated semi-circular arch and double doors. Historical records indicate that a national school was being built in 1830, as noted in Bulmer and Co's History, Topography and Directory of Derbyshire from 1895.

Local climate

The Old School House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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