Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. School. 1 related planning application.
Old School House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-terrace-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1988
- Type
- School
- Address
- Old School House, Church Lane, Horley, OX15 6BJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 416 439
- Coordinates
- 52.09215, -1.39289
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a former school master's house and school room, now functioning as a house. It was built around 1627, with a single-unit addition added in 1711, as indicated by the date on the chimney stack. The building features squared coursed ironstone and has a steeply pitched thatched roof. There are stone ridge and end stacks with brick shafts, and the structure has been extended from two units to three units. It is a single storey plus attic with a three-window attic range.
The entrance is off-centre to the left and features a 20th-century door, a wand frame, and a wood lintel. To the left of the entrance is a three-light casement window with a wood lintel. To the right, there are two three-light wood casements that have wrought-iron casement fasteners and wood lintels. The attic includes two- and three-light eyebrow dormers with metal casements set in wood frames, also featuring wood lintels and wrought-iron casement fasteners.
Inside, there is a stop-chamfered beam and a blocked fireplace with a 19th-century overmantle. The interior also has some stone flags, window boxes, a straight flight staircase from the 18th century, a butt-purlin roof, a stud partition in the attic, and a plank door. The 19th-century school room that abuts on the right is not considered to have special architectural interest.
Local climate
Old School House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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