St Barnabas Old School the School House is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1973. School. 1 related planning application.
St Barnabas Old School the School House
- WRENN ID
- grey-floor-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Dorking and Horley MP: Chris Coghlan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1973
- Type
- School
- Address
- St Barnabas Old School the School House, Ranmore Common Road, Wotton, RH5 6SP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 146 504
- Coordinates
- 51.24209, -0.35937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Barnabas Old School, now known as The School House, is a former school building constructed in 1859 by Sir G. G. Scott. It features a design in the Gothic style, built from flint rubble with ashlar dressings, and showcases a distinctive chequerwork pattern in the gables above the windows. The building has slate roofs with stone stacks and a bellcote at the gable end.
The structure consists of a central hall range flanked by gabled end ranges, with the larger range on the left. The single-storey hall is complemented by two-storey end sections, which have paired stacks on a gableted cross ridge plinth at the junction with the left wing. The hall boasts three full-height gabled windows with stone mullions and transoms, separated by piers that are fronted by offset buttresses.
On the right gable, there is a prominent 5-light mullioned and transomed window, with a smaller arched 2-light window located between the gables in the linking bay. The ground floor on the left features a hip-roofed angle bay window, above which is a two-light stone-mullioned window. The building is accented with stone angle quoins and banding in the gable. A small door is situated in the link to the left of centre, topped by a chequerwork patterned head. The main entrance is located to the right in the hall, featuring a gabled porch with double half-glazed doors and a 4-centred, hood-moulded head.
Local climate
St Barnabas Old School the School House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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