The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 December 1986. House.

The Old School House

WRENN ID
keen-jade-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Derbyshire
Constituency
South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 December 1986
Type
House
Address
The Old School House, Main Street, Coton in the Elms
OS grid reference
SK 245 150
Coordinates
52.73253, -1.63809
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old School House is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century, with some parts rebuilt in the mid-19th century. It features substantial box timber framing and red brick with brick dressings. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with plain tiles, featuring overhanging eaves and a large central brick ridge stack topped with three diamond-set brick pots. The building has two storeys and two bays.

The street-facing elevation includes an off-centre plank door that is sheltered by a bracketed gabled porch roof. On either side of the door are two-light small pane casement windows, each with brick hoodmoulds above. There are two narrower similar windows above, one located over the door and the other above the southern window. The gable walls also have similar windows, with mock timber framing in the gables. The rear wall is entirely timber framed, and the interior is reputed to have an impressive early fireplace.

Local climate

The Old School House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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