The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Adur local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1985. School house. 1 related planning application.

The Old School House

WRENN ID
upper-tallow-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Adur
Constituency
East Worthing and Shoreham MP: Tom Rutland (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 May 1985
Type
School house
Address
The Old School House, St Nicolas Lane, Old Shoreham, Shoreham-By-Sea, BN43 5NH
OS grid reference
TQ 208 059
Coordinates
50.84044, -0.28538
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old School House is a circa 18th-century school house, now converted into three houses, built in a neo-Gothic style. It is located in Shoreham-by-Sea, on the south side of St Nicholas Lane in Old Shoreham. The building is constructed with coursed cobble on a cement plinth, brown brick quoins, and painted window dressings, possibly of stone. It has plain tiled roofs with gable-parapets and several skylights. The building has a cruciform shape with two wings facing east, each featuring uncut plaques in the gables. It is a single-story building with garrets, and has tall plate traceried windows only under the gables. A trefoil window is located in the garret to the north. Various doorways have been added since the conversion. A small pointed window is on the east side of the north section, and there are several additions to the west. The building is included on the heritage list for its group value.

Local climate

The Old School House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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  • 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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