Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1985. School house.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- over-pilaster-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1985
- Type
- School house
- Address
- Old School House, Newchurch
- OS grid reference
- TR 054 313
- Coordinates
- 51.045, 0.92988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a mid-19th century building that was originally a school house and is now a residential house. It is constructed of uncoursed stone and features a plain tile roof. The building has one and a half storeys with stone-coped gables. There is a red brick ridge stack that is slightly off-centre to the left. Each gable has a 2-light stone mullion window. On the ground floor, there are two 2-light stone mullion windows flanking the door, along with a single chamfered light to the right. The entrance features a ribbed door set in a stone architrave beneath the stack. The interior has not been inspected. The building is listed for its group value.
Local climate
Old School House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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