Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 July 1971. School, house.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- north-quartz-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 July 1971
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- Old School House, Hughley Road, Church Preen
- OS grid reference
- SO 554 975
- Coordinates
- 52.57424, -2.65816
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a building that was originally a school and is now a house, constructed in 1872 by the architect Richard Norman Shaw. It features a timber frame and coursed limestone rubble with machine tile roofs. The layout is T-shaped, with the school section on the right and the gabled former schoolmaster's accommodation on the left. The school is a single storey, while the house has two storeys.
The gable of the house is supported by carved wooden brackets and includes a six-light wooden mullion window on the first floor, with a five-light stone mullion window below to the right and a pointed doorway to the left. The school section has two wooden mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights that extend up as tile-hung dormers projecting through the roof slope, along with a pointed doorway to the right. The right gable end features a three-light cusped window on the first floor and a five-light mullion window below to the right. A prominent tall red brick ridge stack with coupled shafts is located to the left of the school range. The school was built at the expense of the local landowner, Arthur Sparrow.
Local climate
Old School House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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