The School House and Numbers 1 and 2 School Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1958. School, dwelling. 3 related planning applications.
The School House and Numbers 1 and 2 School Buildings
- WRENN ID
- salt-hammer-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1958
- Type
- School, dwelling
- Address
- The School House and Numbers 1 and 2 School Buildings, Hague Street, SK13 8NR
- OS grid reference
- SK 036 932
- Coordinates
- 53.43628, -1.94627
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School House and Numbers 1 and 2 School Buildings are a group of buildings dating to 1779, with alterations in the mid-19th century and conversion to residential use in the late 20th century. Constructed of narrow coursed millstone grit with ashlar dressings, the building features a stone slate roof, stone stacks, and a gabled bellcote with pilasters and a ball finial to the left gable.
The street facade is an irregular arrangement of four windows, divided into a three-window section on the left and a single-window section on the right. The former school building on the left includes a pointed arched doorway with a small, painted plaque depicting a beehive and floriated elements. To the right of the doorway are three pointed arched windows, the central one now blocked. Above these windows is an inscribed plaque reading: "This school was erected and endowed by JOSEPH HAGUE Esquire, of Park Hall in this Parish as a testimony of Gratitude to ALMIGHTY GOD for his favour and Blessings through a life of years whereby he was enabled to accumulate an ample fortune and make a plentiful Provision for his numerous Relations and Dependents. Anno Domini 1779." All windows now contain 20th-century uPVC casements. The former school building was originally one storey high, but is now two. The master’s house has three storeys and a single window to the street. A single doorway has a heavy lintel and rusticated surround, with a 16-pane casement window above and another 12-pane casement window above that, both in painted surrounds.
The rear elevation of the former school building features two pointed arched windows on each floor, fitted with 20th-century uPVC casements. Attached to the rear is a three-storey master’s house with a garage door on the right and, above, mullioned windows (two-light and three-light) on each of the upper floors.
The interior was not inspected. The school was originally endowed in 1779 by Joseph Hague, a local cotton manufacturer.
Local climate
The School House and Numbers 1 and 2 School Buildings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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