Old School Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1993. House.
Old School Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-tower-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1993
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old School Cottage, Main Road, Rookley
- OS grid reference
- SZ 507 841
- Coordinates
- 50.65503, -1.28297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old School Cottage is a former school house now used as a house, built around 1846 by Mr. John Woodnall. It is constructed from coursed rubble from the Isle of Wight, with red brick dressings and a slate roof, featuring a cruciform shape. The building has one storey and attics, with three windows. The centre has a projecting gable with stone coping, kneelers, and an iron weathervane with a clock below. The attic includes one cambered two-light casement window with marginal glazing bars. On the ground floor, there is a central projecting wooden doorcase with an open pediment, a semi-circular fanlight, engaged Tuscan columns, and panelled reveals, along with narrow side lights. The ends of the building have one window each, with a two-light casement with marginal glazing bars on the right and a three-light casement with marginal glazing bars on the left. The left gable features a Gothick glazed window.
Local climate
Old School Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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