The Old School and Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Houses, former school. 1 related planning application.
The Old School and Old School House
- WRENN ID
- drifting-lancet-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Houses, former school
- Address
- The Old School and Old School House, Sheldwich, ME13 0NG
- OS grid reference
- TR 014 560
- Coordinates
- 51.26824, 0.88588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School and Old School House is a pair of houses that were once a school and village hall, dating from around 1700 with an extension added in 1884. The building features red and blue chequered brick with red brick dressings and a plain tiled roof. The house, which is 2 storeys tall with an attic on a high plinth, has a discontinuous moulded plat band and wooden moulded eaves beneath a half-hipped roof. It includes three hipped dormers and chimney stacks at both ends. The first floor has five glazing bar sash windows, while the ground floor features five larger windows with glazing bars, including a French door at the left end. The school buildings are also 2 storeys and have a gabled design, with three glazing bar sash windows on each floor; the center window on the upper floor is raised and has a semi-circular head. To the left, there are recessed hipped wings with a boarded door in a gauged head. The central gable is dated 1884.
Local climate
The Old School and Old School House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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