The Old Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. School, house.
The Old Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- quiet-stair-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1985
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- The Old Schoolhouse, Main Street, East Challow
- OS grid reference
- SU 380 881
- Coordinates
- 51.59055, -1.45261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Schoolhouse is a school and schoolhouse, now a house, built between 1855 and 1856 by G.E. Street. It is constructed from coursed and dressed limestone rubble and features an old tile roof with stone stacks. The building is designed in the Gothic Revival style and has a rectangular plan, with the former school located on the right side.
The structure is one storey with an attic and consists of a seven-bay range. The central gabled wall is flanked by a pointed chamfered doorway leading to a plank door on the right, and a flat-roofed porch on the left that has a similar doorway and one-light windows on either side. The windows include chamfered stone-mullioned designs, as well as mullioned and transomed styles. The gabled roof has an offset lateral stack to the right of the front and a rear gable end stack. The right gable wall features a three-light window in the style of the 13th century, with cusped heads above the pointed chamfered doorway. There are also one-light windows at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Schoolhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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