The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. School. 2 related planning applications.
The Old School House
- WRENN ID
- sharp-soffit-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School House, St Just Lane, Windmill Hill, St. Just-In-Roseland, TR2 5HZ
- OS grid reference
- SW 850 354
- Coordinates
- 50.17995, -5.01207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old School House is a Church of England school, now a private house, likely dating to around 1850, although local tradition suggests it could be much older. The building is constructed of slatestone rubble with granite quoins, and has a grouted scantle slate roof with gable ends. It features an external rubble stack over the gable end on the right. The original plan was for a single room, with a porch added later. The architecture shows Tudor influence and uses a local vernacular style.
The building is single-storey. The front, facing the road to the south-east, has one window. An entrance doorway is located in the gable end of the porch, featuring a four-centred rubble arch with its original four-centred doorframe and a pair of doors with moulded boards and iron hinges topped with fleur de lys finials. A small window is set in the porch gable, with a 15-pane casement. A similar original window is located opposite the rear of the building. A larger window to the gable end on the left is a 20th-century replacement.
Inside, the interior is simple. The original roof structure is concealed by a 20th-century plaster ceiling.
Local climate
The Old School House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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