The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. School.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- steep-pedestal-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School, Farley
- OS grid reference
- SK 068 443
- Coordinates
- 52.99671, -1.89956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School is a former school and school master's house, now a residential property. It dates from the 19th century and is constructed of ashlar stone with herringbone tooling. The roof is covered with plain tiles featuring shaped bands from 1860, and there is an ashlar integral end stack. The building is aligned north-east to south-west, with the schoolroom located to the south-west and the schoolmaster's house to the north-east.
The schoolroom, on the left, is a single storey with one bay and features a three-light chamfered mullioned window. To the right, the schoolmaster's house is also one storey, with an attic and one bay. It has two-light chamfered mullioned windows on the ground floor to the right and in the centre of the attic, along with a single-light window on the ground floor to the left. The schoolroom includes a gabled porch on the right, which has rustic barge boards.
Local climate
The Old School receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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